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...that helps keep him there is his token lunch, such as a bowl of clear soup and a gobbet of cottage cheese doused with ketchup, washed down with skim milk. Much of his exercise comes from running up and down stairs in the seven-floor lab building: it is quicker than waiting for an elevator and is good for the muscles in the leg arteries. In summer, Page plays singles tennis, but is careful to play only one set a day at first, after the winter's inactivity...
...earlier courts "to interfere with much state action that the Justices strongly disapprove. . . for more than 15 years the Supreme Court has consistently refused to employ the due-process clause (of the 14th Amendment) to invalidate novel and questionable state economic regulations." But he noted the court has been quicker to interfere "when the impact of government is to restrain the individual in the expression of his thoughts or beliefs or to violate the integrity of his personality...
...should be fitted with safety locks so they will not fly open in crashes. Rear-window shelves should be removed; objects on them have a horrible habit of spewing into passengers' heads during crashes. Power brakes, he suggests, should be operated by hand; the eye-hand reaction is quicker than any foot movement. And safety belts, he thinks, are absolute necessities. This month Colonel Stapp will be traveling to Detroit to congratulate the Automobile Manufacturers Association for incorporating some of his suggestions in their 1956 models...
...give doctors quicker service, the A.M.A.'s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry is abandoning its old system: testing every manufacturer's brand of drugs and awarding seals of approval for those that pass. Instead, the council will henceforth sift researchers' reports on new drugs as soon as they are submitted and render a verdict on each as a standard chemical, ignoring brand names...
...packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That...