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Several different types of drugs are prescribed for the overweight, and if they do little good, they usually do little harm because most reducers take only one kind. But from Oregon last week came a report that at least six and possibly eight women have died, apparently as the result of taking five potent drugs put up, along with a laxative, in a six-pill "rainbow package." Three physicians had dispensed the combination packages, said Dr. Russell Henry, Oregon state medical examiner...
...officials as Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, state treasurer Robert Q. Crane, Mayor Collins, Sears, and probably from Logue is expected to aid his campaign. But last night at a Harvard Young Democrats meeting, Sears warned against letting Mrs. Hicks portray herself as the underdog. "This could cause great harm," Sears said...
...Katzenbach somehow managed to include in his sum federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods lie in their path. Proposals for two interstate highways that would displace 20,000 of Newark's Negroes were among the most serious grievances of slum dwellers before last month's disastrous riots in that city...
They run their complex on the theory that "It's a lovin' era," and it doesn't seem to do them any harm. Last weekend they began to push into the territory further up Brattle St., when they opened a shop for the woman who actually wants to wear the stuff she sees in Vogue. The new place is called Paraphanalia...
Most people know that they can get a severe electric shock if they recklessly poke into the back of an operating TV set, where high-voltage components are placed out of harm's way. But until recently, few were aware that the same high voltages may pose a more subtle threat: they can produce X rays that, if improperly shielded, endanger viewers sitting unusually close...