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...Inability to concentrate, drowsiness during the day, frequent yawning, lassitude, a negative disposition, and, eventually intermittent periods of insensibility deepening to semistupor." There is no antidote, but removing the patient as far as possible from the affected area (preferably to a seaside or mountain location) seems to bring a prompt alleviation of symptoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insecticide May Be Causing Weird Occurrences of Somnolence in Yard | 6/2/1965 | See Source »

...China's Moscow embassy about it. U.S. officials let Russian diplomats in Washington know. The French, British and Canadians-all of whom have pipelines to Hanoi-were informed. Each was asked to pass on the message that any hostile action by the Viet Cong during the lull would prompt the U.S. to double its bomb loads if and when the raids resumed. North Viet Nam brusquely condemned the lull as a "U.S. swindle" and "a deceitful maneuver designed to pave the way for new U.S. acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Lull That Lapsed | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...some items at their seasonal bottom (TV sets, furs, phonographs), but also prevent a slump in peak-time sales of autos and air conditioners by making their cuts retroactive to May 15. Automen, anticipating sales of 250,000 more cars this year as a result of the cut, promised prompt excise refunds (direct from Detroit) on cars bought between now and July 1, and most air-conditioner makers made arrangements to do the same. The President urged businessmen to pass on the full amount of the tax cut to consumers-and most of them seemed ready to do so. Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Logical Step | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...month. The cars will be sold for "the public good" and the houses rented to others. Asking for foreign credits to bolster the economy, the new Prime Minister reiterated his intention to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were nationalized three years ago. This should lead to prompt resumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceylon: A Pledge to Battle | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Today's demonstration in Boston will protest police brutality in Selma, and demand immediate federal intervention there. The civil rights groups want federal action to take two forms: protective measures for Selma's Negroes, and prompt arrests of Sheriff Jim Clark, and the director of Alabama's Department of Public Safety, Colonel Al Lingo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors, Demonstrators Ask Intervention in Selma | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

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