Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...china and glass salesman was trying to unload his products on the lunch counter manager. "Yes, sir, we're now in a position to supply you with a complete line of these glasses. Take this little number. Invaluable for serving fruit jnices. Specially processed to stand up under rough treatment." He dropped it on the counter with what he hoped was a convincing lack of concern for its safety. It didn't break...
...cautioned that there are limits to what glutamic acid can do: e.g., patients improve rapidly during the first six months but approach an I.Q. ceiling by the end of a year; if they quit the glutamic acid diet, they begin to backslide mentally. A still unanswered question: Would the treatment improve the intelligence of normal children or grownups...
...East Orange, N.J., Dr. Myerson's soothing drug treatment got partial support last week. An amnesia victim, a wandering farm hand who had been taken to a hospital, was treated with a dose of sodium pen to thai (a barbiturate similar to sodium amytal) and promptly recovered his memory...
Education of a G.I. Like many U.S. soldiers, Burns was shocked out of his complacency by the war. Gallery is a clear measure of his distaste for the bad manners of American troops, their black marketeering, their thoughtlessly insulting treatment of Europeans. His portraits of promotion-hungry, rear-echelon officers are often bitter and embarrassingly accurate...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...