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...Lest anyone conclude that medical quackery is only a foreign specialty, A.M.A. President Dwight L. Wilbur offered some sobering estimates of the annual take from the domestic variety. He cited the FDA's standard figure of about $1 billion a year but suggested that this covered only interstate quackery. Wilbur estimated that intrastate quackery, immune to federal authority, probably mulets the sick of another $1 billion...
...reason exists to get upset about I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, a sombre little comedy about not nearly enough, we might as well face the fact that its existence and that of dozens of Hollywood hippie-movies will sooner or later necessitate some responsible discussion to our children, lest they accept a celluloid version of the swinging sixties. Now I have nothing against cheap legend, you understand; the prevalent romanticism of American narrative cinema provides a most captivating, not always inaccurate, cultural history of the U.S.A., sometimes useful as a frame of reference, always in our minds. Our grasp...
...Lest the public be deceived by the Vice-President's verbal gymnastics, I submit the astute commentary on Humphrey expressed by that most perceptive judge of character and analyst of political strategem, William Shakespeare. His warning against Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is remarkably cogent...
...concern and grief, which no Westerner may lightly enter or vulgarize in glib anti-Communist terms. Those who have not been through the agonies of the camps, the shocks of alternating liberalization and repression can scarcely pass judgment. This is why Solzhenitsyn did not want his work published abroad, lest it be abused for political purposes...
...that happens, Johnson will be further humiliated, the status of Fortas diminished, and the reputation of the court further tarnished. Equally important, members of the court in the future may be reluctant to take unpopular stands, lest they lose the chance to become Chief Justice. Since Fortas' chances seem so hopeless, some friends have recommended that he withdraw his nomination. The embattled jurist has not done so, and plans to fight...