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...demands from the Food and Drug Administration to temper its advertising with warnings. In a current ad with one page of type, less than a quarter is devoted to recommending the drug, more than three-quarters to warnings about how not to use it. With every package goes a leaflet carrying the same warnings. They are reprinted in the manual that doctors keep on their desks. Last week Parke, Davis spokesmen added that their representatives urge doctors to report any adverse reactions in patients taking Chloromycetin. They point out that some such reactions are associated with any potent drug...
During the 40 minute bus ride from Cambridge City Hall to the Army Base, both students handed out Boston Draft Resistance Group leaflets and encouraged fellow draftees to resist induction. The mimeographed leaflets said, in summary, "LET'S NOT GO IN LIKE SHEEP." "The leaflet scared a lot of people away from us," said Shetterly...
Drifting down the rivers from the hills come logs rigged with paper sails that bear Viet Cong propaganda messages to the U.S. Marines. More leaflets are strewn among the American dead on battlefields. All plug the same hard-sell theme: refuse to fight, desert to the Viet Cong. But lately, the Viet Cong are narrowing their sights. In an attempt to ride the upswing of racial disorder in the U.S., they are aiming their psychological offensive at the Negro fighting man. "Black G.I. in the U.S. Army!" exhorts one leaflet. "Twenty million of your fellow countrymen in the U.S.A...
...instance, although the Irish had been staunchly hawk, the Italians had been outright anti-war or at least eager to listen to the CNCV's arguments. At the same time, the immigrant sections have been very vulnerable to counter-canvassing on the part of the Veterans. The Vet leaflet, which included a picture of an American flag and a short statement about "Freedom is not free," seemed to strike a responsive and ever guilty chord in many Italians. CNCV canvassers found that on Saturday, when the Vet literature began to circulate, the Italians became less prone to long discussions about...
T.S.ELIOT once said of Samuel Johnson that, solely on the basis of his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes," he could be considered a major poet. Johnson's poem appeared as a twenty-eight page leaflet in 1749, and was the first of his published works to bear his name on the title page. Obviously he had no previous reputation as a poet, nor do most people remember him as one, though Boswell somewhere speaks of Johnson as "perpetually a poet" (a statement intended to refer to his quality of mind. The only two poems which appear to have survived...