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...girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating West Indian indigo. At first she suffered setbacks from frost and insect blight, but within seven years, she was able to produce an indigo dye of sufficient quality to export to England. Thanks to Eliza's pioneering, indigo was one of the southern colonies' greatest exports last year. South Carolina alone produced a crop worth about...
...already being made on mice and rabbits. But it will probably be as much as two years before researchers are certain enough about the safety of the extract to make it available to humans. The last promising technique for controlling herpes -daubing the skin eruptions with a photosensitive dye and exposing them to fluorescent light (TIME, July 12, 1971) -quickly dried up the sores and seemed to delay their recurrence. But it was largely abandoned when researchers demonstrated that the treatment produced chromosomal changes in the virus that enabled it to transform normal animal test cells into malignant ones...
...This week, the FDA banned Red Dye #2, saying the red coloring agent is suspected of having cancer-causing qualities. Coincidentally, it was reported this week that Ronald Reagan revealed he was undergoing treatment for cancer of the hair...
...Regional Papers" specifically addressed to New England: "New England's Energy Problem," "New England Consumers," and so on. Finally, there is the blizzard of press releases Udall has sent out in the past few weeks--on Roxbury's developmental problems, on the future of Fort Devens, even on Red Dye No. 2 Summing up all this mimeographed effort, Udall often says. "I've talked in more detail about the issues than any other candidate in this campaign...
...Udall's constituency is made up of the kind of people who like to read about "the issues," and who like to have their questions about the safety of Red Dye No. 2 answered--middle- and upper middle-class liberals. Again, there is in Udall's campaign a sharp contrast with Jimmy Carter, who said last week that he would not detail many of his positions until after he received the nomination. That strategy may seem incredible to Udall's issueoriented liberals in Massachusetts, but Carter is sure it will help him to come out on top in New York...