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...growth-producing properties of the natural hormone, more than justifies his efforts. The hormone not only controls growth but also has a profound influence on important bodily functions, including the metabolism of sugar, fats and proteins, and the production of sex hormones. Chemical production of the compound on a large scale would guarantee a plentiful supply for research into the use of an anti-growth hormone for such purposes as countering cancer-cell multiplication and halting uncontrolled human growth...
...guards are younger than 34; only 8% are black. To compound Indiana State's age and racial tensions, only a third of the inmates actually work. Boredom is chronic. The prison has only 27 rehabilitation workers; job training is absurd. Since the state provides few tools, vocational classes make do with donated equipment: archaic sewing machines, obsolete typewriters, TV sets dating to Milton Berle...
...each, the world's heaviest. Doors that size carry a heavy price: $300,000. Most equipment men concede that given enough time a burglar can crack any safe. He has a superweapon: the burning bar. Developed for demolition work, it is a long pipe filled with a magnesium compound that cuts through almost anything...
...Most of the department's time, said the study, has been "devoted to applying the principles of the late forties in an increasingly rigid way to international conditions that were constantly changing." The authors were equally forthright in assigning causes: "The intellectual atrophy of the department was a compound of presidential dissatisfaction, political reaction, departmental conservatism, bureaucratic proliferation...
Laird also disputed charges that the public had been misled over reconnaissance flights in the North and the purpose of the raid on the Son Tay prison compound there. He was appearing before the committee to defend an administration request for $340 million in supplemental military aid this fiscal year to several nations including Cambodia...