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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myth & Vinegar. Dr. Jarvis prescribes vinegar (always the apple-cider variety) for all comers. The vinegar can be taken straight or diluted in water. But for maximum efficacy, he insists that it be mixed with honey-a sort of sweet-'n'-sour, yang-and-yin combination...
Following the Plot. In McClusky, N. Dak., two farm hands were caught stealing grain to raise enough money to see the movie The Ten Commandments...
...dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America as the 'right to conspire.' We signed a pact by which...
Three Prices. The subcommittee needled the industry again when it produced Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories of South Hackensack, NJ. Blackman estimated that the U.S. public could save $750 million a year if physicians would use scientific instead of brand names in prescriptions. This year Premo sold the Government prednisone tablets at $20.01 per thousand, while Merck & Co. offered to supply them to the Government at $63.70 per thousand and sold them to druggists at $179, for a retail price...
Newly sobered by the payola scandal (see below), the nation's top jocks were acknowledging what everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year ago, and stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka...