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...Heed Advice. Worldly observers are at a loss to explain the popularity of these Johnny-come-lately journalists. Astrology itself still rests firmly on the reassuring premise that the earth is the center of the universe, and contemporary astrologers, like their ancient predecessors, take refuge in generalities so broad as to be totally unedifying. "Good lunar aspect today encourages romance, change, travel, salesmanship on highest level," read a recent and all encompassing bulletin from Sidney Omarr who does not apologize for such ambiguities. Says he: "Astrology deals not with facts, but with profundities...
Kennedy would do well to heed Machia-advice: "Princes, and especially new ones, have found more faith and more usefulness in those men whom at the beginning of their power they regarded with suspicion...
Most European drivers on principle ignore the traffic laws, which they regard as an abridgment of their uncivil rights. However, they heed one caution signal: the red-and-white license plates of a car or truck from Belgium. Alone among Western European nations, Belgium does not issue drivers' licenses, give traffic instruction in its schools, or even demand that car owners show rudimentary knowledge of the rules of the road...
...prominent place on the American breakfast table that many a mother has been moved to cram the kids with pills. If a little of the stuff is good-so the reasoning runs-a lot must be better. Not so, says Orthopedic Surgeon Charles N. Pease; parents should pay more heed to warnings about the possible dangers from vitamin overdosage. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Pease cites specific examples of damage done by too much vitamin A: it has stunted children's growth or left one leg two to three inches shorter than the other...
...idea of a unilateral declaration. "It would be more candid as well as more dignified," he said, "to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war." For All the World to Heed. Adams wanted to communicate the U.S. declaration to France and Russia through the normal channels of diplomacy, but Monroe decided to incorporate it into his year-end message to Congress on the state of the Union. In doing so, he made his doctrine an openly announced national policy-for all the world...