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...contest, had the tweedy, well-heeled people of Wellesley, Mass. (pop. 26,071), been so riled up. Tempers boiled; upstanding citizens denounced one another in public meetings, over TV and in newspaper ads. The issue: a proposal to put sodium fluoride in Wellesley's drinking water. In the upshot, the generally well-off and well-educated citizenry of Wellesley voted down the proposal emphatically. along with two neighboring towns, Brookline and Andover...
...normally cooperative legislature when he tried to install pay-as-you-go income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close a strikebound Wilson & Co. Inc. meat-packing plant, an action reversed in federal court. Upshot: Freeman lost by 23,000 votes to Republican Newcomer Elmer Andersen, while Friend Hubert Humphrey was winning a third Senate term and Jack Kennedy was carrying the state...
...heavy cigarette smoking cause lung cancer? If so, are cigarette manufacturers liable for damages? In U.S. District Court in Miami last week, these questions went to a jury for the first time. The upshot: a Solomonic verdict in which both sides could claim victory...
...court has nearly doubled in the past two decades, but Douglas attributed most of the increase to a "flood" of paupers' claims, "for the most part frivolous and often fantastic." Most such cases are swiftly decided, and the court has streamlined many of its other functions. The upshot, according to Douglas: "We have fewer oral arguments than we once had, fewer opinions to write and shorter weeks to work...
...They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there are probably so many different strains of cold viruses that a single vaccine is as far away as ever...