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Last week L.B.J. showed his own high opinion of J.F.K.'s key aide by naming him to the politically potent Cabinet post of Postmaster General. The appointment drew added piquancy from the fact that O'Brien wanted to give up his White House duties even before John Kennedy's death, and in recent months had been hotly wooed to direct the top-to-bottom reorganization of the Massachusetts Democratic machine sought by yet another Kennedy-Senator Teddy. In any case, Larry had let it be known that he would definitely leave Washington when the present Congress adjourns...
...heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin, this can be detected surely and easily by urinalysis...
Leaders of the major civil rights organizations have made nonviolence both a creed and a potent psychological -weapon of their campaign. But few were surprised by last week's eruptions. Many Negro leaders, in fact, had long warned that violence is an inevitable if unwelcome weapon in their struggle. Some of their statements, past and present BAYARD RUSTIN, who planned the 1963 march on Washington: "I think the real cause is that Negro youth-jobless, hopeless-does not feel a part of American society. The major job we have is to find them work, decent housing, education, training...
...Agnese estimates that there are anywhere from 4,000,000 to 9,000,000 carriers in the U.S., and that one child in every thousand is born with the disease. Hair & Fingernails. The first good news about C.F. came in the late 1940s with the introduction of several potent antibiotics. Virtually all C.F. victims have permanent staphylococcal infections,'and many have other persistent infections as well. The bacteria soon become resistant to any one drug, so treatment requires several antibiotics in a variety of combinations. The next breakthrough was early diagnosis by the sweat test (TIME...
...plasma cannot be pumped into a "bleeder" in sufficient quantity without risk of overloading his circulatory system. Some concentrates of the vital protein are available, but they are expensive. Now Stanford Physiologist Judith Graham Pool has developed a simple, cheap and effective method of concentrating the protein in so potent a form that small amounts can stop hemorrhages...