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...final agreement was probably in the interest of all parties. With the liability issue out of the way, plaintiffs will get much quicker settlements of their claims. And the airlines and the U.S. Government will avoid long, expensive courtroom wrangles over precisely who and what were to blame on that terrible December morning...
There is a widespread canard that 1963's teen-agers are brighter, quicker, and of higher intellectual potential attainment than any previous generation. Ghoulardi has knocked that theory into a cocked hat. Or rather into a football helmet with faucets sticking out of it. He wears...
...many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks of the 1950s, thousands of amateurs-from house wives to retired mailmen-are trying for even quicker profits in the fitful, fickle commodity futures. Sales on the Chicago exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them coming back like horserace fans after a daily-double killing. They were also betting last week that...
...pioneered more boldly with "psychic-energizer" drugs for lifting patients out of a severe depression than Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital. And no man has been quicker to admit that the drugs take too long-usually two to three weeks-to begin to work. Since depressed patients are the ones most likely to try to commit suicide, psychiatrists would like to give them a quick lift. Such help may soon be available, Dr. Kline told a pharmacology meeting in Prague; he has found a promising accelerator for psychic-energizer drugs...
...girl friends get to talking about a trip to Rome. But go to Rome without boys? A girl would as soon go dateless to a drive-in. So Gidget gets Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly in the Eternal City...