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...company changes material for each of its four weekend shows, so no particular performance can be predicted. Among the winners in its repertoire to date are a parody of Leonard Bernstein's condescending "Young People's Concerts," a wedding-night sex manual reading (sex is always funny), and an interview with Chancellor Kiesinger on the remnants of Nazism in Germany...
...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, and they believe that the choice of medication should be left...
...dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck. The ability at least to read the language of the original text is very desirable but not essential." Such is the opening sentence of Parker Hitt's Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers...
...Federal Grand Jury that indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock last month got him on the wrong conspiracy. "Conspiracy to encourage young men to violate the Selective Service Act?" Big deal. The real conspiracy involves his book--Baby and Child Care--the paperback manual that helped bring up nearly every one of today's young radicals and anti-war agitators...
Security Interests in Personal Property is a 1,500-page, two-volume work that took seven years to prepare. It sounds like one of those books that, once you put it down, is hard to pick up. Even its author calls it "forbiddingly technical, a practitioner's manual." But lawyers regard it as far more. "We haven't had any treatises like this for some years," says University of Chicago Law School Dean Phil Neal. "The closest analogies would be the great treatises of Wigmore on evidence and Williston on sales and contracts." Soon after publication...