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...there are signs that now--just three weeks after The Handbook of Prescription Drugs went on sale--Burack is getting impatient with his role as the tolerant doctor. In a rare moment of confidentiality during an interview last week, he leaned over and said, "You know, between you and me, it's silly to pussyfoot around here. I think it's time to clean this thing up right...
...risky business of anti-poverty. Whether a less prestigious politician in a less affluent city could bring businessmen, bureaucrats, and poor people together for any length of time is doubtful. Concedes one Kennedy aide, "It's not going to be the sort of thing that will produce a handbook that anyone can follow...
...speech on het Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) said The Handbook of Prescription Drugs by Dr. Richard Burack "provides the public with what we've been needing" to crackdown on suspected over-pricing by drug companies. He compared the Handbook to Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed saying, "It tells a story that may even bemore important and I suspect it will have similar impact...
This is the kind of guilt MRA plays on. This is the stranglehold it has on the Sing-Out Kids. They are straight, they say. No drinking, no smoking, no dating. There are no rules against such vices in the organization, but no one indulges. In the handbook Moral Re-Armament: What is It? it is made very clear that these are evils. They pollute your mind and sap your energy, draw it away from the Cause...
What do the Sing-Out Kids know about all this? Not much. Ask them a question and they quote the answer verbatim from the MRA handbook. Even the leaders like Sayre do that. Most of the handbook was written by Howard, and it is gospel even though his answers are often incredible non-sequiturs. But the Kids study it and repeat it. The answers are right there and there is no use thinking about...