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Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...
...then trained into Milwaukee. At every stop there were speeches, dinners, press conferences, strategy meetings. He was almost always in motion (in Ketchikan, it included dancing with the local ladies). In the four days sleep was something to be snatched on planes and trains, fatigue was countered with vitamin pills and the sheer momentum of Hubert Humphrey's astonishing vitality. At times the strain showed on Humphrey's face, but energy invariably won the day. After a quick shower and a change in Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel, he was refreshed and ready to go again...
Personality & Philosophy. An indefatigable, apple-cheeked dynamo (he regularly consumes vitamin pills), Humphrey breathes, eats and lives politics. One of his party's most adroit campaigners, he is the poor folks' avowed
...irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no one is sure that this is really the reason or how irradiated foods can be made assuredly safe. Director Morse has concluded that the whole program had better be restudied...