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After the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in the 4th century, the coronation ceremony was performed on the site of the church of St. Mary of Sion, where Ethiopians believe that the son of Solomon and Sheba deposited the Tablet of Moses. So revered is the church that worshipers kiss its steps before they enter; so sacred are its confines that by Coptic custom no woman has ever been permitted within its enclosure, and few male foreigners have been allowed inside by the priests who devote their lives to protecting its treasures...
...Kennedy is still no partisan of the overoptimistic, positive-thinking branch of Protestantism, which he describes as "a spiritual aspirin tablet, a spiritual glass of Ovaltine." He adds: "Any church that starts out to be a success in the world's eyes is doomed to failure...
...Trouble in Miltown" [Feb. 8], you state that Miltown "sells to druggists for 3.3? and retails for about a dime." In reality, Miltown costs the pharmacist $3.25 per bottle of 50 tablets, which is 6.5? per tablet...
Therefore, at 10? a tablet, the price is quite reasonable...
Some support for the charges came last week from Washington, where Senator Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee probed into the high price of tranquilizers -which cost up to six times as much in the U.S. as in foreign countries. One Miltown tablet costs only .7? to make, testified Carter President Henry Hoyt, but it sells to druggists for 3.3? and retails for about a dime. Why the wide spread? Into every pill, replied Hoyt, Carter figures research costs of .4?, promotion costs of 1?, profit of 1.2?. As for promotion, Carter has a blue-ribbon mailing list...