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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about $1 billion out of seven bills totaling $14.5 billion. But upwards of half the chips in that impressive $1 billion pile are phony, e.g., $207 million out of payments to veterans, $76 million out of old-age-assistance grants to states. Federal outlays of this sort are governed by laws, and as long as the laws remain on the books. Congress has no choice but to appropriate, sooner or later, whatever money is needed...
Medical researchers reported last week that they have found a sort of untran-quilizer-a drug that shows promise in treating mental patients suffering from depression. It is no new chemical, but iproniazid (trade name: Marsilid), first cousin of isoniazid and a veteran of the 1951 campaign against tuberculosis. When it was given to TB patients at New York City's Sea View Hospital, they became happy, ate ravenously, gained weight and started dancing in the wards (TIME, March 3, 1952). Iproniazid was soon retired from widespread use because it produced undesirable side effects, such as dizziness, constipation, difficulty...
...doubtless aware that the "Committee" has recently mailed (I suppose to all alumni) a lengthy letter with two enclosures, on this subject. It appears to be a reasonably well-organized effort to launch some sort of "alumni probe" into suspected subversive influence in the Yard...
...dreary form of literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp," Low's greatest gift to the popular mythology of politics, somehow went wrong. They made a film about Blimp, and it turned into a defense of all the stuffy traditions Low had spent his life deriding...
...town of Werdenbrük is like Remarque's Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially...