Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health-care center similar to Bethany's. Bethany also hopes to start a methadone program for drug addicts next month. It is not waiting until then to do something about the drug problem. Accompanied by an ex-addict, a hospital pharmacist is busily touring neighborhood schools to warn children and help stop addiction before it begins...
...worst thing for a cough may be cough medicine, says the Medical Letter, a biweekly newsletter edited by physicians for physicians. Taking aim at nonprescription cough syrups and elixirs, which contain as many as five drugs, the editors warn that "there are no reports of well-controlled trials" showing that such mixtures are effective. Nor, warns the Letter, are they safe...
Died. Dr. Brock Chisholm, 74, controversial Canadian psychiatrist who from 1948 to 1953 served as director general of the World Health Organization; of pneumonia; in Victoria, B.C. Chisholm was one of the first to warn that world population growth could eventually outstrip food supplies unless there was global family planning. Best known for his attacks on what he regarded as society's sillier ideas, he stirred a furor by arguing that any child encouraged to believe in Santa Claus has his ability to think permanently injured. On superstition: "There is hardly a hotel in New York that...
...crutches- but nonsense in any case. The "subtle points of interpretation and evaluation" were really quite simple. Fink was not there. The Committee had not treated anything "quite exhaustively." The Committee had not known where Fink was standing. This amazing letter continued, and even returned to English, to warn Fink that "if the case is reopened . . . it is entirely possible that sanctions would be made more rather than less severe under the circumstances...
...Although no one will put it so bluntly in public, there is considerable disagreement over whether states and cities can be trusted to spend wisely the new money they may get. Mills, Byrnes and many others warn that if Congress hands over billions to the states and cities with no strings attached, it will begin a dangerous dismantling of the control procedures in present programs that are intended to make sure Washington gets the best use out of its aid dollars. Proponents of revenue sharing argue back that Washington has no monopoly on brains. "Those closest to local needs...