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...Helium Quack. Oceanologists, meanwhile, have not been idly waiting around for the Aluminaut to show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical...
Stare decried quack contentions "about calories not counting, the therapeutic benefits of honey and vinegar... the wonders of natural foods and those fertilized organically, and of course, the nutritional nonsense over the radio and TV from people with no professional training in nutrition or any other area of health...
...Divine Spark. "The lonely crowd" is part of the language, and the new burdens on the individual are discussed and decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
...first test of the 1914 Harrison Law, which prevented doctors from giving drugs to addicts: "The cops finally arrested a pill roller who was running a shooting gallery. You come in, say, 'Doc, I got warts.' Bung he gives you heroin. He was a quack...
...delighted in calling Mrs. Roosevelt "La Boca Grande" while she was alive: "I haven't changed my mind. The press eulogized her as the first lady of the world, but I think it's undignified and dishonest to call her that. I think she was a terrible quack...