Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tidbit. Indeed, the the Administration has not been very cooperative. It is not Landau's fault that the careful research in his best chapter has become largely superfluous. Nor is he to blame for Kissingers refusal to grant him an interview Kissingers official bashfulness, however does put a heavy strain on the book. The effects are most severe in the biographical segment...
...A.M.A. Journal and other professional publications last June, was similar to hundreds of other pitches for drugs. Aimed at the doctors who write prescriptions, Lederle Laboratories' illustrated three-page spread implied, among other things, that Minocin is superior to all other available tetracyclines and effective against a strain of staphylococcus bacteria. Yet a follow-up ad, which ran in the same journals nearly three months later, was strikingly different. It quoted a statement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the earlier claims were misleading. It also conceded that Minocin is a tetracycline variation with all the limitations...
...problem is to get this newest bee off the drawing boards. Latin countries do not have funds for the necessary research, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has not committed itself to the project. Besides, there is always the chance that the new strain would escape before it was fully developed...
...very best, as in The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss can not only enforce sobriety and respect among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control...
...crimps in the federal large have not hurt so much as elsewhere, but the adulterated river of aid has put a hitherto overlooked entity into light. An informal lobby, presided over by Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community affairs, has begun to feel the rest and strain of a hostile drift in Congress and to turn necessarily to a more visible role...