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...issue has also attracted crackpots who cite unknown medical authorities condemning fluoridation. The Boston Herald recently received a letter signed "Aqua" which read: "Fluoride taken even in minute quantities is highly poisonous and destructive to the body. According to the world famous Professor Otto Warburg, any interference with cell oxidation starts an abnormal process of fermentation which changes the normal cells into cancer cells...
Even so, two days after Truman's announcement, the New York Herald Tribune published an editorial curiously similar to those that other papers would run 16 years later: "The effect of this withdrawal upon the political scene should be to clear the air and to clarify the issues. A campaign in which he participated would have turned inevitably on negative, disruptive arguments...
Most publications that die in New York stay dead. But a few, or parts of them, are coming back to life this week. New York magazine, which used to supplement the New York Herald Tribune and later the World Journal Tribune, is reviving as an independent weekly. A TIME-sized 40? magazine on glossy paper, its first issue contains 136 pages, with 64 pages of advertising, including the much-prized Fifth Avenue retailers. After an inventive promotion campaign offering winners such awards as a dinner with Mayor Lindsay or a personal bench in Central Park, an encouraging 60,000 people...
...reforms, consolidated his position and opened the way for further liberalization by forcing the resignation of deposed Party Chief Antonin Novotny, 63, as President of the country that he had ruled with an iron hand for 15 years. Polish students used the reforms in Czecho slovakia as a herald in their defiance of the government. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, an earlier liberalizer (TIME cover, March 18, 1966), read the handwriting on the wall and decided that Rumania should go farther along the reform road. Everyone should be free to criticize the Communist party, Ceausescu told his Central Com mittee...
Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons...