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...book Control of Migraine (Norton; $7.95), Brainard reports, for example, that he has had great success in coping with his own and his patients' migraines by changing both diet and lifestyle. Among other things, he advises reducing salt intake; avoiding such foods as ripened cheese, chocolate, nuts and ham; staying out of crowded, smoke-filled rooms; getting ample rest; shunning alcohol, especially red wines and brandy. Other doctors downgrade the importance of diet. Says Dr. Arthur H. Elkind, director of the headache clinic at New York's Montefiore Hospital: "Occasionally we tell patients to avoid certain foods, but counseling...
...Aviv, Ham Operator Gurdus sat huddled before his set.* In Bonn, a member of Schmidt's crisis group recalled later, "You could have heard a speck of dust move...
...Carter has been away from home, the evil of deductibility may have taken root right in downtown Plains. Charles Dennis thinks that most of his Back Porch patrons are tourists. But now and then he sees a table of men looking suspiciously like businessmen. Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee, passes out the tabs ($2.50 a head) and asks nary a question...
...effectiveness is its impartiality-a fact cited by the Nobel Committee. In its well-documented reports on torture and human rights abuses around the world, AI has cited Czechoslovakia as well as Chile, the Soviet Union as well as Iran. Much of the Nobel Prize money, said Chairman Thomas Ham-marberg, will go to build more local organizations in Third World countries in Asia and Latin America...
...applications for their new toys. Robert Goodyear, 62, a Framingham, Mass., physicist, uses his computer to tap out and edit his personal correspondence. Manhattan Physician Joseph J. Sanger cross-indexes his medical journals to provide him with instant, tailor-made refresher courses on any disease he asks for. Ham Radio Operator Irving Osser of Beverly Hills has programmed his computer to keep a log of the people he talks to on his radio and to translate Morse code into a typewritten message. Boston Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips...