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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Biggest complicating factor is a basic fact of pharmacology: there is no sharp line between poisonous and nonpoisonous substances-common salt can be a poison in excess, and arsenic can be a lifesaver. Dr. Arnold J. Lehman, the FDA's pharmacology director, quotes the Swiss Alchemist-Physician Paracelsus (1493-1541): "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Checking the Additives | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Nothing that Harvard does consider geographical distribution a factor in determining admission, Fred L. Glimp '50, Director of Freshman Scholarships, stated that its influence was usually minor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Advised To Look Beyond Area for College | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Student opinion was in favor of inviting Reuther to deliver the annual series, given last year by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, the Committee member continued, and this may have been a factor in the decision of the Department of Preventive Medicine in asking...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Med Department Invites Reuther to Speak Here | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

...further factor cited was belief that a summit conference offers the most dramatic means of impressing on Khrushchev the NATO resolve that West Berlin stays free despite Soviet threats to neutralize it and turn over control of its traffic with the West to Communist East Germany his talks with Khrushchev...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Macmillan to Urge Summit Talks For Solution of Berlin Problem; Senator Fears Possible Conflict | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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