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...showing America how patriotic and respectful some kids could be, and simply ignoring the "radicals" of Flamingo Park. The police successfully diffused the demonstrations by arresting few and beating up practically no one. With the Republicans in town, Flamingo Park became nothing but a carnival, an adjunct to the convention skillfully portrayed by anxious-to-please newsmen as an orgy of disruption for the folks back home. Every obscenity hurled meant more votes from the Wad; every egg on the dress of a delegate "can mop up the guilt of 500 bombs...
...critical point, however, which I wish to re-emphasize, is that multiphasic screening is fine, but only as an adjunct and aid to well-trained physicians in achieving proper results...
Even law-and-order advocates sometimes find their sensibilities offended by that most unstable adjunct of police work, the informer. Trained from childhood to disparage tattletales, Americans have hardly a decent word for those who give information to authorities. The glossary runs to such pejorative nouns as fink, stoolie, rat, canary, squealer. In some police argot they are snitches. Yet no major police force can operate without some of the shady types who will go where cops seldom can, perhaps to a meeting of conspirators, or do what cops won't, for example, shoot heroin before a cautious pusher...
...Today devotes most of its current issue to optoelectronics, calling it "without doubt one of the fastest-growing areas in physics." The new technology has already produced miniaturized lasers that are no bigger than a grain of sand. It is turning holography (three-dimensional photography) into an exciting new adjunct of diagnostic medicine, civil engineering and computer technology. It has yielded light-detection devices that can virtually see in the dark, and it offers a promising way to help relieve the jam in cable and radio communications by transmitting messages on beams of light. Yet in terms of everyday impact...
...Adjunct G-Men. Publishing requests for assistance in catching criminals is hardly new. Both the FBI and an A.M.A. official insist that medical journals have occasionally been so used in the past and will be in the future; indeed, the current issue of the A.M.A. Journal notifies doctors of another woman being sought by the Bureau. Nor does the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, which covers only medical matters, excuse doctors from the demands of the law. In many states, for instance, doctors are required to report gunshot wounds, and in some they must also alert authorities to suspected...