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...State Board of Medical Examiners, she had been checked by physicians from crown to toe, pronounced in excellent health. Last week Attorney General Will Wilson told her stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver felony charges because narcotics and barbiturates were found in several offices...
Fact is there is far from complete agreement on just what the summit leaders conference should accomplish, or how NATO should be changed. West Germany and Italy want each country to confer with its NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country...
...Payments for "productive efforts of all sorts," i.e., profits as well as wages, should rise in step with productivity, not outrun it. Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government, should restrain their demands...
...same. He got caught a couple of times: in 1946 he was indicted, eventually assessed costs of $500 for eliciting "fees" from independent grocerymen, who, rather than hire union drivers, were hauling their own provisions; in 1942 he was fined $1,000 for his part in a conspiracy to restrain trade among Detroit's wholesale paper companies...
...London for Derby Week, when the "talk of the town is 'orses, 'orses, 'orses," the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane could not restrain his admiration for the way the British press writes about 'orses. For readers of his syndicated column back home, Pulitzer Prizewinner Delaplane described the basic English race-track story...