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...Overdoses of sodium fluoride can in deed be dangerous, as was tragically shown in 1943 when a mental patient dumped 17 lbs. of it into 10 gals. of eggs about to be scrambled at Oregon State Hospital. The dead: 47. Even in lesser doses, sodium fluoride can be harmful. But health officers can easily guard against overdoses, pour just the right quantity into the local water...
...answer to your question on foreign aid, "Should a Friend in Need be a Friend in Deed?" [July 23], I refer you to Schopenhauer: "A friend in need is not a friend, indeed; he is merely a borrower...
...from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions or linking one sequence to another with trick dialogue. Between times, the plot turns upon Jeff's illicit love for Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that Jeff's brainstorm was basically unsound. Any competent script doctor would second the diagnosis...
...first, McElveen refused to waive extradition. But Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen, calling the murder a "dastardly, heinous, cowardly deed," immediately set the legal wheels in motion. McElveen, formerly an honorary member of the Louisiana state police, changed his mind and returned voluntarily to jail and a murder charge. Meanwhile, FBI agents and state and local authorities searched for possible accomplices; police believe that there were three gunmen...
Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...