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...Most pills on prescription are ordered taken three times a day, and this "is about two doses too many for the average patient to remember," writes Philadelphia's Dr. Benjamin Wheeler Jenkins in GP. The pills are not taken, and pile up on bathroom shelves. His suggestion: more pills of the repeat-action type, to give a day's dosage in one dollop...
...rich-quick newcomers. But many independent automakers were forced to take them on, and now they are in trouble. Said a Chicago dealer: "The weak sisters shouldn't have been in the business in the first place. They came in during the good years and made their pile, and now they're squawking...
...Judges. Summing up the pressures brought against him by Cohn on Schine's behalf, Adams said: "If you would pile together all of the abuse that I had from all the other members of Congress and all of the other congressional employees over a period of five years, it would not compare to the abuse that I took over this situation...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...
Much of the original material for King of Hearts came from Mrs. Eleanor Brooke, a Washington, D.C. housewife, who, as Jean had been earlier, was a graduate student in Walter Kerr's drama class at Washington's Catholic University in 1948. Mrs. Brooke collected a vast pile of research and turned it into a lengthy character sketch of an egomaniac. Working on and off in her mobile office, Jean invented additional characters and material and built the play in six months...