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...easily available, indiscretions are winked at and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, the big question was whether a number of Congressmen had put pliant young women on their payrolls purely (or impurely) for personal pleasure. Mere hanky-panky would hardly be criminal, but disclosures of it would be poison at the polls. Worse, sex at taxpayers' expense can lead to charges of fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sex Scandal Shakes Up Washington | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...them are members of the right-wing John Birch Society who regard the Food and Drug Administration's ban on Laetrile as a restraint on individual freedom. Krebs argued that Laetrile kills only cancerous cells-not normal tissue-because they do not contain an enzyme that detoxifies the poison cyanide released from Laetrile's central ingredient, a chemical called amygdalin. Yet in repeated tests, Laetrile has shown no effect on tumors. Says Dr. Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laetrile Crackdown | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...lines until her husband, the stuffy director of a spurious religious society, ran off. In her 50s, still attractively statuesque, Miss Herbert takes up with a kinky London publisher whose idea of a good time is to make her strike "love portraits" against his collection of mummy wrappings and poison rings. The activity gives her a calm feminine feeling "that for the first time she was beginning to understand 'mature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out from Down Under | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...finally, as a made-for-television banner proclaimed, the Big Red Ivy did indeed poison the "Twerps," ah, Terps of Maryland...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Flanders Fields | 6/1/1976 | See Source »

...that failed, they would have to accept the inevitability of an early election-probably this June, a year ahead of schedule. It would be an election they may well lose, but the Communists are leery of winning. Given what observers call a choice of "a gun or slow poison" (a quick, risky election or the certainty of ever-increasing Communist influence), the Christian Democrats seemed inclined to try shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Moving to a Shootout | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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