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...over the Bolivian upset supported U.S. State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...
...Habit Patterns. Spastics, or victims of "cerebral palsy," are one of the biggest and most neglected groups of handicapped U.S. citizens. Some 300,000 of them are under 21. The cause of their trouble: an injury, usually at birth or in infancy, of the motor areas of the brain, which thus lose part of their control over the nervous system. Symptoms range from the extreme of complete idiocy to slight difficulty in speech or movement...
...Kabat, a boy wonder who got his Ph.D. from Northwestern at 22, was then an instructor in physiology. He discovered that prostigmine, which had been used chiefly to relieve post-operational gas pains, relieved muscular and nervous tension in polio victims, helped physical therapy to create new habit patterns...
Canyon Passage (Walter Wanger-Universal). Feeling harried? Overworked? Jittery about the Bomb or the price of butter? Try Canyon Passage for quick, temporary relief. Unlike bridge, alcohol, the ponies and other popular forms of escape, this brilliantly engineered movie is iion-habit-forming and has no nagging aftereffects...
...fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...