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What makes laetrile so in demand is what the Krebs claimed was its "antineoplastic" activity. That means it's supposed to shrink tumor growth, or as they say in medicine, cure cancer. People who are convinced laetrile will arrest their cancers sometimes manage to get around the FDA, and one particularly desperate man in Oklahoma City who won a case last month was granted a six-month supply of laetrile. The FDA is fighting the verdict...
...expert" opinion, and they seem to have a touchingly naive faith that because you're a woman, you'll know all the answers. But if you tell a man who is confused about the subject that you do think his behavior is sexist, he may become huffy, or shrink like a wounded animal...
...glamour gluttons of Beverly Hills, whose excursions into the technology of beauty have popularized such treatments as acid peels, sandpapering and surgical nips, are pushing a new aid to the perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs...
...year, for the first time since the Depression, total mail volume-not just parcel post-is down. Reason: rising rates in a time of economic recession. Postmaster General Bailar, along with nearly everyone else who has studied the problem, warns that the vastly higher rates proposed by Wenner would shrink volume still further. Yet, adds Bailar, "the fixed costs of postal service would remain," and thus rates would have to jump even further...
INCOME. It is pure romanticism, say most gerontologists, to assume that prudent people can provide adequately for their old age. Inflation in the 1970s can erode the value of the most liberal of pensions and shrink the worth of even the fattest savings accounts. Nor does Social Security, upon which most elderly Americans depend for at least a third of their income, enable most to live with any measure of financial security or comfort. A 65-year-old couple entering the plan this year and entitled to the maximum benefits, which they have paid for in taxes, draws only...