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...been an unshakable policy of my government to combat illegal drug traffic at the national as well as the international level, in collaboration with other countries. This attitude reflects itself in the strict and prompt enforcement of all current international regulations such as, for instance, those of the International Narcotics Control Committee...
...filing of the disclaimer will prompt the rewriting of the May 3 decision in light of the recent Supreme Court rulings relating to press freedom, William P. Homans '41, an attorney for Popkin, said yesterday...
Earlier diagnosis, which enables prompt surgical treatment, is credited with reducing fatalities in cases of breast, cervical, prostatic and rectal cancers. The chemotherapeutic approach, in which drugs are administered in series or in combination, is being used with encouraging results against Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and other systemic cancers...
...seriously misinterpreting human nature: "When the psychologists refuse to study anything but the most mechanical forms of behaviour-often so mechanical that even rats have no chance to show their higher faculties-and then present their most trivial findings as the true picture of the human mind, they prompt people to regard themselves as automata, devoid of responsibility or worth, which can hardly remain without effect upon the tenor of social life." Freud, Adler and Jung? Although psychoanalysts "offer many fundamental insights into real-life situations" and cannot be accused of banality or irrelevance, Andreski says, they lack "a sense...
...back to a genially schizoid Italian named Gaetano Merola who founded it back in 1923. Merola was schizoid in that, though he favored Italian opera, he would have little to do with Italian musicians. "The Italians never come on time," Merola would grumble. "Give me the Germans. They are prompt, orderly, reliable." One of the most prompt, orderly and reliable "Germans" was Kurt Adler. A Viennese immigrant, Adler reached San Francisco as chorus director in 1943, after five years at the Chicago Opera. He became director when Merola died...