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...Fuss v. Muss. The Hillcrest Country Club accepts new members only from applicants who filed before Jan. 1, 1952. When the Hillcrest case came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...
...controversy raged on, oilmen rushed around soothing fears of drilling fuss and muss, tried to round up more homeowners' leases to meet the 51% required for dezoning. They made small progress in Beverly Hills, which refuses to allow the specter of industry in its well-manicured oasis of luxury and wealth. There oilmen found only 220 citizens willing to lease. The remaining 31,000 have enough money already, or belong to the right oil-golf clubs near...
...that it has Henry Heald as president is a significant indication of its development, for few men have won wider respect in business, government and education. An engineer by training and a conservative by temperament, Heald has made an enviable reputation for performing administrative wonders with a minimum of fuss...
...bottom of all the fuss was the accusation that Foreign Minister Piccioni's son Piero, a 35-year-old jazz pianist, had abandoned Wilma Montesi to the waves while she was stupefied by drugs. The fact that the police had at first declared her death accidental was attributed to pressure brought to bear by Ugo Montagna, a bogus Sicilian marquis of inexplicable wealth and impressive contacts among the upper reaches of the Christian Democratic Party...
...users of tranquilizing drugs: they should not be taken with alcohol. At San Francisco's Langley Porter Clinic three University of California researchers gave about four jiggers of bourbon each to 18 alcoholics, told them to lie down on a surgical table. Most subjects complied, made no fuss. A week later they got the whisky with the tranquilizer chlorpromazine: some lay down on the table, promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug had not only increased...