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Silber had attacked aspects of the station's programming in a letter calling for "an end to mindless and illiterate chatter," and to the advocacy of "quack psychotherapy," and any form of drug abuse...
Unfortunately, as innocent as such a solution may seem, it is filled with as many perils as, well, a 19th century medicine man's wagon. In the case of cancer, quack remedies involve more than bustled ladies sipping alcohol-laced Lydia Pinkham's compound or husky baldpates rubbing themselves with hair-growth oil. They are a cruel hoax that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita...
...photos of entire families-mom, dad and six children-jogging in identical warmup suits. And nothing is more appalling than, as a 10-to 15-mile-a-week runner (which is to say a moderate lunatic; some glittery-eyed types run 100 miles a week), to hear the deadening quack of zealotry come from one's own mouth. Long-distance runners are lonely because they are insufferable...
...business as usual. The Soviet Union was attacked with customary stridency. The Chinese officially rejected condolence messages from the Communist parties in Moscow and most of the Soviet-bloc countries, including Cuba and Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
...colas but of the letters. Their conclusion: Pepsi's test was invalid because people like the letter M better than they like Q. Chicago Marketing Consultant Steuart H. Britt theorizes that Q is disliked because of the number of unpleasant words that begin with Q (quack, quitter, quake, qualm, queer...