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Down in Mexico they squeeze peach pits and apricot kernels to get laetrile--active ingredient: amygdallin--and they smuggle it across the U.S. border to patients in the States. A man named Ernest T. Krebs Sr., M.D., first administered the drug in the twenties and Dr. Krebs junior followed his father in 1951, and claimed he could effectively inject the stuff. Trouble is, laetrile breaks down into cyanide, and the Food and Drug Administration has never approved its use. The FDA also says that it can't allow the marketing of quack medicines...
...Upstairs, Downstairs, they cannot live apart, though their relationships are plagued by mistrust and class antagonisms. The factory chosen for the story belongs to Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd., Britain's largest privately owned manufacturing firm. For two weeks, Correspondent William McWhirter followed Managing Director John Owen and Doug Peach, the firm's senior union spokesman, around the company's main plant in Darlaston, and interviewed workers, foremen, efficiency experts and company directors. "I left Darlaston feeling that neither side was to blame," says McWhirter. "It was just, as they would say, 'the situation...
...loose look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses and near severe tailored pants and jackets. At Dior, Marc Bohan showed below-the-knee skirts topped by waist-length confections he calls "waiter's jackets" -and most women doubtless will have...
...Atlanta Correspondent David Lee reported on the scene and personalities at NASA's mission control center in Houston. Aerospace Correspondent Jerry Hannifin furnished the "specs" of U.S. and Soviet space hardware. Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro verified details ranging from what the American astronauts will have for dessert (rehydratable peach ambrosia) to the mechanics of the "androgynous" docking module that will link the Soviet and American vehicles...
...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...