Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...define what it is you are charging me with. Let me just say we have had very limited success in managing the news, if that is what we have been trying to do. Perhaps you would tell us what it is that you object to in our treatment of the news...
...talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
Thallium sulfate (the inexpensive salt of a metal akin to lead) was used by some dermatologists as late as 1940 to make a patient's hair fall out-which made it easier to treat ringworm of the scalp. After such treatment hundreds of patients became ill, and scores died. Thallium salts were shunted from the medicine cabinet to the poison shelf. In 1957, the Texas legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous...
...other 26 were found-months or years after their accidental poisoning-to be suffering from uncontrolled and abnormal movements, severe mental illness or retardation, or combinations of these handicaps. Several of the children had to be sent to institutions for the mentally retarded. Since no safe and effective treatment for thallium poisoning has yet been perfected, doctors say that the only way to protect children against it is to forbid completely the use of thallium sulfate in preparations for household...
According to interviews, most unmarried day students would like to spend at least some nights in Radcliffe dormitories. Currently, a Radcliffe commuter receives the same treatment as any visitor not in college. She may stay in the dorm only by arranging to have a resident act as hostess. The hostess is then obliged to pay several dollars for linens (a fee that some interpret as an ill-disguised nuisance charge). The hostess is also responsible for being that her guest obeys rules, and must even after any penalties her guest incurs...