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Last week, only ten days before the legislature's deadline, faithful Judy B was still sitting tight on the toll-road bill. The clear-thinking men had called in experts, held hearings, discussed at length, and had reached a "hopeless impasse." A clear majority wholeheartedly agreed that it was a very bad bill, but they just could not figure out how to amend it. A motion on the floor of the house to "blast" the bill out of committee and place it before the whole membership failed by one vote. The Craig forces were winning the fight by suffocation...
...history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current cases far more effectively, and 3) in some instances reverse long-standing disease so that patients can be freed from the hopeless back wards of mental hospitals where they have been "put away" for years...
...magnitude of the fallout hazard, the Federal Civil Defense Administration must feel that it has been admitted to the Anteroom to Hell. Thus it is a good time for a thorough housecleaning in the civil defense establishment. An inventory should be made to see what measures are in the hopeless or useless category...
Results of early treatment by analysis were only tentative. But then came insulin and metrazol, and now, in the last two years, have come two new drugs, chlorpromazine and reserpine, which are making thousands of supposedly hopeless cases of schizophrenia accessible to analytic techniques...
...members), known officially as the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., defeated a long-projected merger with the Northern Presbyterians, known officially as the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,492,504), and the United Presbyterian Church of North America (228,718). Merger prospects, church leaders now feel, are hopeless for "at least" several years...