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Most of the Asiatic folk medicines sold in San Francisco's Chinatown are harmless. Sliced deer horn and powdered tiger penis, which believers in mystical medicine take to increase virility, are unlikely to hurt anything but the buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients of another Chinatown favorite for aches and pains: ginseng rejuvenating pills, which are made in Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug...
...guaranteed to withstand pressure from post-Watergate public opinion, especially with trials of former presidential aides still pending. Beyond that, there is the simple maxim of never confronting today what can be put off until tomorrow. In law, delay is generally thought to favor a defendant. From a pocketbook point of view, that is particularly true for Nixon, since as President he has access to the kind of legal advice that would cost in six figures if he had to seek it privately...
...plans, according to Moulton, are designed to soothe community concern about the large size of the library and to ease the Kennedy Corporation's tightened pocketbook in face of ever-rising construction prices...
Food prices remain a pain in the pocketbook, and shortages of canned goods are showing up in the supermarkets (see box following page), but America's newly fat and happy farmers are jubilant. With the notable exception of cotton, which is expected to be 4% behind last year's crop, never before has there been so much to harvest. Midwest farms are producing such quantities of grain and golden soybeans that equipment dealers cannot get enough storage bins for them. Even though a month of above-normal rainfall slowed the start of the harvest in the grain belt...
...waterpolo team's club status has already affected the team's schedule this season. Jonckheer said he has turned down several invitations to play in large middle-Atlantic tournaments because of a tight pocketbook...