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Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...
...Novak's plea for ethnic power can sound like the oldest American politics; one hears the rhetoric of a new Tammany promising the Slovak grandmother prune dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most intellectuals...
...their huge supply of U.S. dollars and used them to buy shrimp on world markets. Now that the yen is worth more in terms of "old" dollars-17% more when revaluation is completed-trading greenbacks for shrimp has become an even better bargain. Whether or not the shrimp is sounder than the dollar, the fact is that shrimp can be stockpiled safely for more than a year, and they are always in tremendous demand in Japan. Their appeal is so great that the Japanese are pouring millions of yen into ventures to develop shrimp industries in India, Southeast Asia...
...contracted for a screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison), and hired Director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer). Mattel has worked out an arrangement for eight children's films-what else?-with Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, A Dog of Flanders); Radnitz is now at work in Louisiana on Sounder, from the 1970 Newbery Medal novel by William Armstrong...
...torch has proved a flickering beacon. Some of the dreams of uhuru have been shattered; a very few, such as the founding of the Organization for African Unity in 1963, have been fulfilled. Black Africa is embarking on its second decade of independence with a more realistic outlook and sounder, brighter hopes of genuine progress. But the prediction that the Duke of Gloucester offered to the leaders of Nigeria in 1959 still rings true: "The future may not be easy. You have a heavy task before...