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...Court of Appeals denounced Hoxsey's claims for his cancer tonic as "false and misleading," ordered the district judge in Dallas to forbid interstate sales and shipment of Hoxsey's bottled wares. (Hoxsey and his lawyers delayed the ban for 15 months.) Said the A.M.A.'s watchdog bureau of investigation: "The whole thing reeks of fraud." The American Cancer Society was even more emphatic: "There is nothing in his . . . medicine which has the slightest effect on cancer, except, according to one investigator, to stimulate its growth slightly...
Main points: 1) interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...
...this ironic description, coined at a Harvard-Yale dinner last fall be taken too seriously, it must be stressed that the strong powers which the Administration undoubtedly possesses can be exercised only because the President and his Dean have won the confidence of their watchdog groups. Yet once there is this basic confidence, the Administration is able to battle for its programs and can generally finesse opposition...
Sugar Cane & Shells. In an age already short on privacy, the danger is apparent, but most of the watchdog work of television thus far has been beneficial. TV cameras, trimmed down to shoebox size and able to see in the dark when used with infra-red light, can go places and do things too dangerous for humans...
...industry has made the greatest use of watchdog TV. At an annual saving of $12,000 in guard salaries, Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts posts TV cameras for 24-hour watch of 300 yards of fence. Television eyes help check the speed of sugar cane moving along a conveyor belt at the Ewa Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television...