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...heel. From the resulting tiny puncture, the doctor squeezes three drops of blood, one each into circles printed on a piece of filter paper. With a midget bandage stuck on his heel, the baby is ready to leave. There is still one more formality: the mother gets a leaflet explaining the purpose of the jab in the heel and why she should have it repeated when the baby is a month...
...detected with certainty. Hence the advice to the mother: take the month-old baby to a pediatrician for a second test. In case the mother has no pediatrician, or feels she cannot afford to use one, the health department gives her an alternative. Along with the explanatory leaflet the mother gets some filter paper, with instructions to put a piece inside the baby's diaper. After the wet diaper is removed, the mother dries the paper and mails it to a state laboratory, where chemical analysis will diagnose PKU. This urine test is rated useful, but not quite...
...decision was clearly an advance: after a controversy last spring, the Masters had banned all door-to-door leaflet distribution. But that step was never publicized, and in fact the Masters ignored it themselves early this term when they allowed the Liberal Union to advertise a civil rights demonstration by putting mimeographed broadsides under House doors...
...Masters' concern for the tranquillity of the Houses is understandable; but a leaflet, quietly slipped under a door, disturbs no one. Nor is the "wastepaper" problem an important objection to free distribution, for such literature as the political groups have the resources to produce cannot add significantly to the currently permitted avalanche of newspapers, HSA calendars, and House notices...
Posters called for "No to the unknown. Who will be the successor? De Gaulle does not know, nor you either." But the Gaullists were even winning the war of words. A leaflet mocked the opposition: "I am intelligent enough to vote for a Deputy. I am not intelligent enough to elect a President of the Republic. Since I am an imbecile, I am therefore voting...