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...also announced that it is undertaking a herculean task: the screening for effectiveness of all over-the-counter (nonprescription or "proprietary") drugs marketed in the U.S. No one knows how many there are, though estimates go as high as 500,000, counting competing brands and combinations of the same basic chemicals. The FDA has had authority since 1938 over the safety of drugs, but not until 1962 did Congress give it the power to require proof of their promised performance. The studies now beginning, scheduled to take three years, will be made by panels of non-Government experts. First...
...ruling is upheld on appeal, the paperwork ahead presents a herculean task. Likely result: fast action by Congress on either Senator Edmund Muskie's or President Nixon's bill, both of which would aim at stopping pollution from cities and factories at its source (before it ever reaches any waterways) and give them a ten-to-15 year deadline to comply. Anyway, something must be done. The requirement just set by the federal court has made the present laws virtually unworkable, since no federal agency can possibly provide a complete environmental report on the effects of discharges from...
LENNY. More masochist than martyr, pornocratic Lenny Bruce nonetheless mainlined some painful truths into the U.S. psyche. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a herculean performance...
...France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Germany's Karl Schiller, Italy's Guido Carli. Like their predecessors at Bretton Woods, these men face the necessity of crafting a new system to finance global trade, tourism and investment. They surely will not finish that herculean job by the time the annual meeting of the 118-country International Monetary Fund ends Friday. The question is whether they will even begin, or whether they will instead turn the world even closer toward a potentially ruinous trade...
With ten or so more starts remaining, Blue has a chance of becoming the first lefthander to win 30 games in a season since Lefty Grove posted a 31-4 record in 1931. It would take a herculean effort, but considering Blue's record, anything seems possible. As of last week he not only had the best won-lost record in the majors (21-4), but he also led the league in strikeouts (240), completed games (19), shutouts (8) and earned-run average (1.62). For a veteran moundsman, such marks would be merely amazing. For a fledgling in his first...