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Digging deep into its statute books for three little-used laws, the state of Texas last week put the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business within its borders.* In a civil proceeding in the Seventh District Court at Tyler, the N.A.A.C.P. was charged with 1) barratry (inciting or instigating lawsuits), 2) violating its state charter as a charitable and benevolent group by engaging in political activity, 3) failing to pay state franchise taxes. The court's injunction so sharply curbs the activities of N.A.A.C.P.'s 20,000 Texas members that N.A.A.C.P. Chief Counsel...
...seventh month running, a book called Arthritis and Common Sense (Witkower Press; $3.95), by one Dan Dale Alexander, was high on U.S. bestseller lists. It is .sadly misnamed. Alexander is no man of medicine, but a sometime medical technician in the Army (where he rose to the rank of Pfc.) who got a Ph.D. from a London diploma mill. Burden of the book (aside from emphasis on the imagined importance of a full output of ear wax): "Arthritis is a deficiency of specific dietary oils. This deficiency results in a ... lack of better-grade lubricating oils for the bodily joints...
...American Rheumatism Association lists seven forms of rheumatism, the collective term for all diseases marked by pain or stiffness in the joints, muscles and related structures. In six, arthritis (inflammation of the joints) is a symptom. The seventh classification, "nonarticular" (not involving the joints), is a catchall for many of the commonest forms. Of the seven, osteoarthritis and nonarticular rheumatism are the commonest (between them, more than 80% of all cases). Rheumatoid arthritis (10% to 20%) is the most crippling. Many patients have more than one form...
...Yardlings rate as definite under-dogs as they go after their sixth and seventh consecutive victories of the season against the Yale and Princeton freshmen...
...keep up with rising U.S. needs under any circumstances. Says Otis H. Ellis, general counsel of the National Oil Jobbers Council: "We constantly hear that 'there is no security in foreign oil. A more appropriate slogan would be,"There is no security without foreign oil." " With one-seventh of the world's crude-oil reserves, the U.S. consumes 9,000,000 bbls. of oil daily, well over 50% of the world's production. The Chase Manhattan Bank predicts that U.S. oil demand will rise another 53% in the next decade, to some 12.8 million bbls. daily...