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...SENATE. In the old Senate caucus room the ten members of the select Senate committee were questioning CIA officials, including Director William Colby and the deputy director for science and technology, Sayre Stevens, about 11 gm. of shellfish toxin and 8 mg. of cobra venom discovered last May in a CIA storeroom (TIME, Sept. 22). No one could claim that the existence of the poisons as such was all that momentous, but the committee wanted to know why the lethal substances had been preserved. Besides, they made fascinating listening. To dramatize the Senators' concern, Committee Member Walter Mondale...
...stated by the A.M.A. Instead, every one of the twelve controlled studies that have been carried out in which subjects were exposed to cold viruses by contact with other people and in which some subjects regularly received the vitamin C, an average of 1,000 mg. per day, and others received an inactive tablet, gave the result that the vitamin-C subjects had less illness than the controls. The average amount of decreased illness for the vitamin-C subjects was 37%. There is no doubt that vitamin C, taken regularly or taken in large amounts at the first sign...
...ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank of a Turkish column...
...never been west of the Mississippi. I thought San Francisco seemed like the promised land. Finally I would find out about the legendary west coast. The minute I got there the whole myth began to materialize. There were my sister and her husband, both deeply tanned, waiting in their MG. I climbed into the back, and we sped through South San Francisco into the city. Fortunately, it was dark, so I didn't see the heavy industry or the huge sign painted on rocks and set into a dull green hill, saying, "Welcome to South San Francisco...
...pharmacist at Chester A. Baker, Inc., in Holyoke Center said yesterday that there are no governmental restrictions on the purchase of Vitamin C. A bottle of 100 500-mg. pills sold...