Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rats. The lipstick makers insist nonetheless that women never digest more than an infinitesimal speck of lipstick, and that the FDA's attack is grossly unfair. Probable next step: a public hearing to discuss FDA's ban on the dyes, now scheduled to go into effect...
...injections of Western capital, however massive, will have any lasting effect unless their recipients impose upon themselves political and economic discipline. And in Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that national prosperity cannot be a gift from outsiders, that it can only be achieved by prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first...
...synthetic substance that belongs to the sex hormone family but has no effect on sex characteristics and is not really a hormone* was reported last week to be the most promising new weapon in the drug treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Albert Segaloff, of New Orleans' Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, described the paradoxical chemical and its promising performance to 750 experts gathered in Washington by the Public Health Service's Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center to report progress on the most active sector of the anticancer front (TIME, July...
White Africans are most impressed by Bhengu's effect on the crime rate. In some areas it has dropped as much as a third, and last year Bhengu set himself to reduce crime in Johannesburg by 25%. He is still far short of his goal, but the attempt itself is remarkable in a frightened city (pop. 1,000,000) where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have...
...LITTLE PILLS lost "liver" when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court decision ordering Carter Products, Inc. to delete the word from name. FTC victory in longest case in its history (16 years, five months, eleven days) established that the pills have no therapeutic effect on the liver, are no more than a laxative. Carter has petitioned for a rehearing...