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...Harmless and Responsible...
...They are harmless relics-harmless, that is, so long as nobody mistakes them for anything significant . . . Abroad, Britain's reputation as an old curiosity shop will be enhanced and our tourist earnings may benefit...
...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...
...Grant-Hoffman Company, which rents one-third of all student refrigerators through Harvard Student Agencies has replaced sulfur dioxide models with refrigerators which operate on harmless freon...
...contrast, there was a disturbing report about danger from an object hitherto generally considered harmless: the wristwatch. Drs. Grafton D. Chase and Arthur Osol of Philadelphia's College of Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...