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...last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump, so will the imperialist struggle definitely fall into the abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sun-Baked Language | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...five years old. But Spain now produces annually 40 million doses of penicillin of 100,000 units each; with no prescription needed, many middle-class families decide for themselves when to use it, give their own injections. Perhaps the most enthusiastic testimonials to penicillin come from the most septic sources in Spain: the third-rate bull rings. In the past, many toreros lost a leg or died from common wound infections after being gored by a bull, but now the smallest arena has a first-aid squad armed with a penicillin syringe. One novillero last week put it in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Good Wizard | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Touring Home. A self-powered home on wheels was put into mass production by Michigan's Saginaw Manufacturing Co. Built on a G.M. light-truck chassis, the "Safari" sleeps four, comes with air conditioning, gasoline-burning generator, septic-tank lavatory, shower stall, stove, refrigerator and kitchen sink. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...have kept the illegitimate child, which would have seriously handicapped her chances of "a happy and normal marriage," 2) she could have given the child to the public authorities, which would have caused her "terrible guilt feelings," or 3) and most likely, there would have been a secret and .septic delivery in a hayloft, presided over by her mother and grandmother. Then what would have become of the baby? The question did not arise because Dr. Flournoy and a colleague authorized a legal abortion, which was performed in a clinic of high repute, under optimum medical conditions, for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Reno for Abortions? | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Under Home Entertaining: "If you have a septic tank or cesspool, you need to explain [to house guests] that . . . facial tissues . . . should not be thrown into the toilet bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gracious Living for All | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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