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...U.S.S.R.'s Health Minister Maria Kovrigina reported that 3,500,000 Russians suffer from heart disease-43% of all the nation's invalids. Commonest victims: people in middle age, regardless of occupation; intellectuals and executives, regardless...
...types of mental illness, a research team reported last week, ran the range-in various combinations-from everyday neuroses (one-third) with anxiety and depression to psychoses (21½%) and character and behavior disorders (54%), with emotional instability and passive-aggressive personality the commonest types...
...almost all other states prorating still booms along with little or no regulation. The commonest abuse is the consultant's practice of extracting the fee from the first payments, thus leaving the debtor still more in hock. For example, a New Yorker gave the budgeteer $35 a week for three weeks for payments on his $2,000 debt. He then discovered that $80 of the $105 had been diverted to the budgeteer, only $25 to creditors. There are other sharp practices. The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago last year indicted a debt-pool outfit which assessed customers...
...score of the nation's top virus researchers put their heads together in Manhattan last week and collectively bemoaned the fact that they still can offer no preventive and no cure for the commonest of civilized man's ills, the common cold. All they could prescribe for sniffling humanity was hope...
...Mention 'Lutheran' anywhere in America to this day, and the commonest memory association word is 'heresy.' " Thus, in a confidential letter to ministers of the United Lutheran Church in America, President Franklin Clark Fry reluctantly began to egg-walk his way last week through the issue raised by the heresy trials of three Northwest Synod members. The Rev. George Crist Jr., 31, and the Rev. Victor Wrigley, 36, had been convicted of heresy by a synod trial committee in not subscribing to certain articles of faith, e.g., the Virgin Birth, the miracles and the physical resurrection...