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Unlike their body-lice cousins, they are not known as carriers of any disease. But they cause such a maddening itch that anyone harboring them is invariably driven to a pharmacist or a doctor, no matter how embarrassing the visit may be. A simple cure, says Dermatologist Ackerman, is to apply a 1% solution of gamma-benzene hexachloride, either as a cream, lotion or shampoo, to the troubled area. Nevertheless, since the presence of Phthirus pubis is usually the result of sexual contact, he urges all physicians who come upon such scratching patients to examine them for gonorrhea and syphilis...
...always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long as two years ago, Yale Professor Henri Peyre, an astute France-watcher, sensed that the French, after "a prolonged seven-year itch," were "feeling nostalgic for some turbulence...
Broadway Producer Hillard Elkins was strolling beside Manhattan's Central Park last week when he got an itch to speak with the man directing the revival of his musical Golden Boy, in rehearsal at the George Abbott Theater some 20 blocks away. Elkins sat down on the nearest bench, opened his briefcase and picked up the telephone. "Hello, mobile. Come in, please. This is JL 5-5035," he began, and in moments the director was on the other end of the line...
...Mills's valuable support is the tourist tax package that Lyndon Johnson is submitting to Congress this week. "We are going to do something about this," vowed Mills, and while it might not be precisely what the Administration has in mind, it will be designed to assuage the itch for travel that propels about 3,000,000 Americans-and 2 billion American dollars-overseas each year...
...ease the itch, 40 representatives of both the Pennsylvania and the Central have planned together for many months. They worked in neutral territory-offices of the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. The first sessions were stiffly formal, but even though some Central executives fear that they will be frozen out of key jobs by their opposite numbers at the dominant Pennsy, the atmosphere soon thawed...