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...could not forget that digitalis, the first useful drug for heart disease, came from an old wives' brew of foxglove, and he remembered that a Dutch pharmacist had made a reputation during World War II selling a licorice concoction for ulcers. Dr. Doll decided that there was no harm in trying...
David L. McNicol '66, who opposes Ragsdale for president, said yesterday, "this is a very serious matter, which if true, could harm the HYRC a great deal. I hope Duncan can clear himself of the charge...
...lays most of the blame for the losing campaign on Candidates Barry Goldwater and William Miller, who "shifted emphasis erratically from day to day, achieving little continuity and no momentum. Issues were selected and articulated at the very times and places where they would do the ticket the most harm." Goldwater "read his speeches stoically and unenthusiastically. His rhetoric confused the debate and left him terribly vulnerable to charges of name-calling, smearing and carelessness." Moreover, says the report, the "Goldwater leadership clique" exercised "an oppressive exclusiveness that put loyalty to a small cabal ahead of loyalty to the Republican...
...Latin poetry, and Scandinavian economics, I could not help asking Professor Gerschenkron how he had managed to escape the ill effects of his oppressive schooling. "It was a tough system," he replied. "If you failed one subject, you had to repeat a whole year, which did you great social harm. But school was so mechanical, so bureaucratic, that everyone read outside school and developed outside interests." "Mine," he added, "was Bulgarian philology...
...proposing new legislation. In the past, especially in 1963-64, Federal officials have used the excuse that civil rights acts were pending in Congress to try to quiet Negro militancy. In the summer of 1963, for example, many Congressmen warned that a Negro March on Washington, would only harm the prospects of the proposed legislation...