Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report said, the three issues symbolized the students' "intense moral indignation against the Vietnam war," feelings towards "Columbia's relations with its poorer neighbors and society's treatment of racial ghettos," and the whole issue of free speech and free assembly
...loot from burned-out stores, sometimes while policemen and troops looked the other way. This sight, perhaps more than any other, contributes to the belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact...
...have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective in most cases than earlier medicines and promises real progress in future Parkinsonism treatment, once it is thoroughly tested. Unfortunately, it has already touched off a flurry of premature hope among U.S. Parkinsonism victims, variously estimated at between...
Cotzias has his eye on a more remote and desirable goal than the treatment of a single disease, even such a common crippler as Parkinson's. He holds with Chemist Linus Pauling (TIME, May 3) that biochemical deficiencies in the brain may masquerade as brain-tissue degeneration. The deficiencies may result from underlying damage to neurons (the electric regulators of the nervous system) or other causes, but either way they produce "electronic breaks," so that nerve impulses do not get through. Dr. Cotzias wants to find more ways of repairing more kinds of electronic breaks...
Nothing preoccupies thoughtful electronic journalists quite so much as the problem of giving depth to TV news coverage. For all their frequent excellence and immediacy, nightly newscasts are usually too pressed for time to give more than perfunctory treatment to significant events. On the other hand, longer public-affairs programs are rarely able to deal with more than one subject. In pursuit of a solution, CBS last week presented its own television version of a newsmagazine, a biweekly program called 60 Minutes (Tuesday...