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...National Tuberculosis Association's annual convention, it turned out that one of their newest worries is a disease that looks and acts like tuberculosis, but is something else. More disturbing still is the fact that the germ responsible for at least one type of the illness, formerly believed harmless, is now shown to be immune to at least two of the drugs most widely used to combat...
...abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...
...What he can least abide is the merest evidence that the blind can also love. The boys and the girls are taught in the same classrooms but they may not associate. A passed note conceived in puppy love is enough to bring down severe punishment. A stolen kiss, a harmless rendezvous, may result in being "shipped," and the likelihood that no other school will accept what Canopus has discarded...
...score does not reflect the one-sided character of the game, since the Engineers scored five runs in the first inning, then went scoreless until the ninth, when they tallied their last two harmless runs...