Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millions of them-young, 39, and old-are doing it. The hair-coloring fad is the biggest-booming (1956 sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads with a whole spectrum of tints (cosmetologists never say "dye") that sport such come-on names as Golden Apricot, Sparkling Sherry, Fire Silver, Champagne Beige and just plain Black...
This week a whole new flock of federal employees is being hatched to take on a new U.S. duty: checking chickens. With the full-feathered approval of all the big birds in the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the chicken business, Congress passed and the President signed a new law that gives the Federal Government instead of private industry the responsibility for checking the purity of poultry at processing plants. In the past, 550 Department of Agriculture inspectors have checked poultry only if processors asked and paid for the service, an operation that cost the industry...
...Western technical civilization have caught up with primitive peoples; 2) when primitive people do suffer from schizophrenia, it-is essentially the same disease as in the West, though often colored by local superstitions, giving point to Carl Jung's warning to the congress that even the most modern, drug-minded therapist "should have sound knowledge of myths and primitive psychology...
...then. But beyond urging vaccine allocations to states by population, the U.S. Public Health Service was still doing nothing positive to control distribution. It relied instead on mere recommendations that physicians and other health workers come first, to be followed by workers in transportation and other essential industries. National Drug and Lederle sent their first releases to jobbers in a dozen cities across the U.S., left it to them to decide how to dole out shots. In general, first to get the vaccine would be doctors and nurses. In some areas, the police had next priority. There was little likelihood...
...Laura MacDanald, aged 20 months, left hospital in Darby, Pa. in good condition after a unique operation to combat the ravages of acute leukemia, which threatened her with early death. Laura is one of identical twins. When her disease became resistant to drug treatment, doctors gave her a massive dose of whole-body X rays to destroy bone marrow that was making abnormal blood cells, then took 40 cc. of marrow fluid (containing an estimated 2 billion healthy cells) from twin Mary, injected the material into Laura's bloodstream. Though pleased that Laura's blood returned to near...