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Without Envy. In a perceptive new book about Appalachia, appropriately entitled Yesterday's People, Jack E. Weller, a Presbyterian minister who has spent 13 years in the region, writes of a church-backed attempt to organize garbage collection in a typical holler where the families had traditionally tossed their refuse into stinking heaps near their houses. The people were so incensed at this intrusion that some of them took to dumping their refuse on the garbage collector's lawn. In Appalachia few community-wide campaigns go much further...
...Endikin and Reetchie" by Harvey Firari and "Cello Days at Dixon Place" by Michael Weller took an attentive and from a post-nuclear desert hell to the temporary break-up of an idyllic situation in the Village of three young men and the woman they idealistically share The one-act plays, both originals premiering at the Ex, are moderate successes, certainly up to what are now the fairly high standards...
...weight down. But in addition, insulin stimulates the deposition of fat. Physicians insist that adult diabetes can nearly always be controlled by diet alone-if only the patient will stick to the diet. But he rarely does. At Grasslands Hospital in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Charles Weller and Dr. Morton Linder found that the more overweight the diabetic gets, the more insulin there is in his blood. And the more insulin, the more he tends to eat and thus store up more fat in an ever-widening vicious circle...
...four drugs currently available for U.S. prescription in the treatment of adult diabetes, three are sulfonylureas: tolbutamide (Upjohn's Orinase), chlorpropamide (Pfizer's Diabinese) and acetohexamide (Lilly's Dymelor). Drs. Weller and Linder emphasize that these sulfonylureas promote the release of insulin-at least in the early stages of treatment-and thus help to make fat. They recommend sulfonylureas for patients whose weight problems are not critical and for the few who are underweight. For the overweight, they prescribe phenformin (U.S. Vitamin Corp.'s DBI), which, they say, helps both to control appetite and to speed...
...make a good enough recovery to go back to their homes and jobs. If more psychiatrists and other physicians had a more hopeful attitude, they would give more effective help to more patients. After treatment, Dr. Menninger insists, many patients are better than ever before in their lives-"weller than well...