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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...September. In the chatty paragraph that followed, Sylvia admitted a feminine partiality for expensive face creams ("I won't confess to myself, much less to you, what I was spending"), but said she had given them up when a skin specialist assured her that nothing, but nothing, beats common soap. This little white lie (in private fact, she still dabs on assorted costly ointments, pays 75? a cake for Elizabeth Arden soap) had its purpose. It was Sylvia's way of backing into a survey of the billion-dollar cosmetic industry so stuporously dull that few readers would...
...stomachs (a group of California hospitals recently reported a run on "lost sponges"-18 in a single year). Obstetricians have been known to deliver one baby and quit, leaving its twin behind. Surgeons have removed a kidney only to discover that one is all the patient had. A more common cause: transfusions of mismatched blood, which kill about 3,000 patients a year in the U.S., injure thousands more. In such cases, where human error is clearly responsible, courts often hold that res ipsa loquitur-"the thing speaks for itself"-and the injured patient need not produce expert testimony...
Nowhere in the U.S. is the malpractice suit more common than in California. One in every four California doctors has already been sued at least once, and the state boasts records for both the highest jury award ($250,000) and the highest out-of-court settlement ($290,000) in U.S. history. During the past four months, in Los Angeles County alone, malpractice damages have totaled $400,000. One California doctor, insured for only $5,000, was slapped with a $75,000 judgment, lost his home, automobile and other assets. Dr. William F. Quinn, former president of the Los Angeles...
...odds with the conscience and conviction of many a good Catholic. Just before the recent elections, Puerto Rico's three bishops denounced Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party for its "anti-Catholic and antiChristian" toleration of birth control, sterilization and common-law marriage (TIME. Oct. 31), warned that Catholics who voted for the P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless, Muñoz won an overwhelming victory at the polls. At all Sunday Masses last week, the pastor of San Juan Cathedral, Father Thomas Maisonet, told parishioners who voted for P.D.P...
...this year her Pepperidge Farm bread had grown into a $32 million business, and when Campbell Soup wanted to buy it. once again she thought she ought to get a good price. She did. Last week Campbell announced that it would exchange 357,413 shares of its common stock, worth some $28,200,000 for the outstanding stock of Pepperidge Farm Inc., owned by Margaret Rudkin, her family and a few friends. For Campbell, with profits last year of $40 million, and Pepperidge with profits of $1,300,000, it was the marriage* of two of the most respected...