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...been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases of Ménière's disease with less disastrous aftereffects...
...party went to jail. Kuomintang officials congratulated themselves that they had neatly disposed of the opposition and expected to hear no more about it. After all, the technique had worked before-notably three years ago, when another political critic, the daily Rung Lun Pao's chief editorial writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving about as easy to hush...
...bilious editorial apologete will darkly ask: 'How does it happen that from the volunteers among our 80,000 military pilots, not one Catholic filtered through the Space Curtain?' 2) Some communion breakfast orator will harangue the Knights: '. . . Columbus et al. were of our faith. Are the Niñas, Pintas and Santa Marias of the cosmic seas to be piloted solely by heretic helmsmen?' 3) A Catholic educator will demand a look-see at the 566 'Who am I?' questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted to put a Catholic...
...sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing led by a medicine...
...ruling was handed down in the case of bicycle tariffs. In March 1955 the Tariff Commission recommended an increase in duties on large-wheel, lightweight bicycles from 7^% of value to 22^% of value. The President boosted duties to only ni% of value. He erred, ruled the court: "If the President does not accept the findings of the commission, he should reject them, not compromise them...