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...implied lack of supervision this is completely misleading. Two federal regulatory agencies maintain close supervision over packaged medicines. The most important legal safeguard of the family medicine chest is the Food and Drug Administration, which administers the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. This Act prohibits the sale in interstate commerce of products that are adulterated or dangerous to health. The law also establishes minimum standards of strength, quality and purity for many drugs. It establishes specifications for the labeling of drugs, so as to avoid misbranding. The other regulatory body is the Federal Trade Commission, which maintains supervision over...
...Look." Last week the New York Times front-paged a story that Vice Presidential Candidate Dick Nixon would not endorse McCarthy when Nixon campaigns in Wisconsin, would instead "inferentially attack him." In Denver, reporters confronted Eisenhower with Nixon's statement. Ike folded his arms across his chest, looked thoughtfully at the floor of his office, and said: "I am not going to support anything that smacks to me of un-Americanism . . . and that includes any kind of thing that looks to me like unjust damaging of reputation." But he will support McCarthy as "a member of the Republican organization...
When he was born, in London, even his mother thought that he seemed to have a thick skin. As the baby grew, his skin darkened and hardened to a black, rough casing over his whole body except the chest, neck and face. It was covered with close-set black bumps; between them the skin was as hard as a fingernail, and if it was bent it cracked and oozed bloodstained serum. Someone cruelly dubbed him "the elephant boy." Doctors said he had been born with ichthyosis (fish-scale disease). Nobody knew its cause or cure...
Treatment at some of London's best hospitals did no good. A trial operation to graft normal skin from his chest to his horny palms proved worse than useless: the grafted skin blackened like the rest, then shrank and stiffened his fingers. The boy went to school, but his teachers and the other pupils objected to him. Though he was quick to respond to affection, he got so little that he became shy and lonely...
...Treasure Chest. In Yonkers, N.Y., when police asked him where he had hidden the jewelry he stole, Clayton Cuff, 20, was speechless, gasped for breath, coughed up a $425 diamond ring...