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Most Portable Portable. A portable radio-phonograph (8½ in. by 11 in.) was put on sale by the Rockland Precision Manufacturing Co. The transistor set requires only four ordinary flashlight batteries to operate, will play 6,000 records (45 r.p.m.) or 750 hours of radio without a battery change. Price: $79.95 for the set, $49.95 for the phonograph alone...
...mental wellbeing. They found plenty of tranquilizers, excellent for overactive, agitated patients, but none that was much good for those at the opposite end of the scale, suffering from depression; in fact, some tranquilizers induced worsened depression. Then researchers hit on half-forgotten iproniazid. At New York's Rockland State Hospital three doctors gave the drug to 14 patients suffering from depression for which there was no cause to be found in physical illness, got good results in twelve, had to stop the drug in two cases because of unfavorable side effects. One woman, who showed as good improvement...
...This new G.O.P.," complains H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of the Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Boston, "has lost sight of its 1952 goals. It has soft-pedaled on cutting Government expenditures. It has slowed down on its job of getting the Government out of business. It has adopted the socio-economic policies of the New and Fair Deals...
...goods and services." Adds David Rockefeller, executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have reached a point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast, if indeed we have not already started." Says H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's Rockland-Atlas National Bank: "To continue to inflate to even higher levels may lead to a wild boom-and-bust cycle. It can happen here...
...historic Natchez Trace, some of the editors were surprised to find no segregation in places of business. Editor J. Clark Samuel of Massachusetts' Foxboro Reporter was struck by "fine colored schools" and the sight of Negroes and whites "living in compatibility." Publisher John C. Bond of Massachusetts' Rockland Standard noted "a real effort to lift the level of the Negro educationally...