Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, several drug firms produced a "super-aspirin"-a combination of aspirin and a small amount of steroid hormones -which is being publicized as a spectacular remedy for arthritis...
Since both hormones and aspirin have proved effective remedies for arthritis, super-aspirin backers claim that the two together exert a synergistic effect on patients, i.e., produce greater benefit than the sum of each used separately. But 1) the evidence for super-aspirin's synergistic effect is questionable; 2) aspirin can be taken safely by almost any patient, while hormones are suitable only for some patients. Cortisone, ACTH, prednisone and other hormones sometimes produce such undesirable side effects as peptic ulcers, edema, mental disturbances and high blood pressure...
...other planes. The equipment would take an estimated two years to develop, another four to install. Cost: a whopping $1 billion. But, as Air Force MATS Commander Lieut. General Joseph Smith says: "The cost of a mid air collision between one of our 6-473 and a passenger-laden Super-Connie could buy a lot of control." So far, the CAA has been reluctant to push such complete airway control...
Borne on the winds that sweep out of Russia, radioactive dust from the Soviet Union's latest super H-bomb (TIME, Dec. 5) descended on its neighbors. The Dutch army reported a "high content of radioactive substance" over The Netherlands; West German scientists spoke of "an appreciable increase in radiation," and Paris' Municipal Hygiene Laboratory said that radioactivity over the city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with...
...size that Khrushchev fixed for the new Russian bomb appeared to indicate that it was smaller than some super-bombs the U.S. has exploded. But neither the variation in size nor Khrushchev's self-applauded statement supplied much comfort to the week's nuclear news...