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Acne is so common an affliction, especially among teenagers, that some authorities regard it as an unavoidable side effect of hormonal changes during puberty. As a result, general medical textbooks either ignore the problem or dismiss it in a sentence. But there is far more to acne than that, California's Dr. Jerome K. Fisher told the American Dermatological Association. And much of the trouble can be traced to what goes into the victim's stomach. From a study of 1,088 patients seen in ten years of Pasadena practice, Dermatologist Fisher has concluded that a principal villain...
...husband. He questioned Pauling himself about his beliefs and actions at interminable length. Justice Samuel J. Silverman was visibly irritated. "I fail to see where this line of questioning will lead. Move along." Finally, last week, the trial came to an abrupt end. Silverman sustained a defense motion to dismiss the suit...
Invisible Supermen. Why has God become so hard to believe in, so easy to dismiss as a nonbeing? The search for an answer begins in the complex?and still unfinished?history of man's effort to comprehend the idea that he might have a personal creator...
Centuries ago, the effects of hormone decline were less conspicuous because so few women lived beyond the menopause. Now modern medicine has added 30 or more years to the female life span. And still, Dr. Wilson complains, physicians generally dismiss post-menopausal changes as part of the "natural" aging process. Their attitude, he suggests tartly, stems from the fact that "most doctors, being male, are themselves immune to the disease." As he sees it, the menopause is "castration," and he asks whether his colleagues would tolerate so casually a similar fate in themselves...
Last week, in the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, the company won its case. In a decision that was tartly worded, a three-judge Federal panel commanded the FTC to dismiss its order against P. & G. "The Supreme Court has not ruled that bigness is unlawful, or that a large company may not merge with a smaller one in a different market field," the judges wrote. "Yet the size of Procter and its legitimate successful operations pervades the entire opinion of the commission and seems to be the motivating factor which influenced the commission to rule...