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Starr County, Texas. If drug demand is down, says Fred Ball, Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, the smugglers don't seem to know. Starr, along with two neighboring mesquite-covered counties along the Mexican border, has become known as Little Colombia because of high-profile drug smuggling since the federal crackdown in Florida. Officially designated as one of the nation's poorest regions, the area is basking in a cocaine-driven economic boom that has helped fuel a surge in bank deposits. Lavish homes -- paid for in cash -- have been built fronting the Rio Grande, and luxury cars equipped with...
...only when such trials have been carried out and the method's effectiveness demonstrated on large numbers of burn patients are U.S. doctors likely to take these claims seriously. Before-and-after photographs prove little, since a few patients have healed surprisingly well under any circumstances. Concludes Dr. Fred Caldwell, president of the American Burn Association: "It's one thing to make claims of a miracle cure. It's another to back up those claims with good clinical trials." The ointment may ultimately prove to be of some value, but in medicine new treatments have to pass the test -- again...
Cautioning the final clubs not to become "centers of heavy drinking," Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said this week that if they do not voluntarily cut down on underage alcohol consumption he will pressure club alumni to crack down...
Vacation Watch--After an unusually eventful fall, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is finally getting away from it all. This morning, he heads for Melbourne, Australia, and later New Zealand, for a two-month leave of absence. The dean says he is looking forward to his first extended vacation since 1980, but notes that it won't be all fun and play. While on vacation, he says, he plans to continue work on a much awaited pamphlet on the workings of the Administrative Board. Guess a dean's job is never done...
...service will resume in January and run through March, assuming that the council approves the plan at its meeting tomorrow night, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...