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...Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina, announced that "the only redeeming social value" he could find in rock "is that the words are inaudible." The P.M.R.C.'s Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, evoked a "proliferation of songs glorifying rape, sado-masochism, incest, the occult and suicide by a growing number of bands." Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans...
...bills that would restrict imports in one way or another, and the first is about to come up for action. It would slash U.S. imports of textiles and clothing by 25% to 40%; 346 Senators and Representatives of both parties have signed up as cosponsors. South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings, one of the drafters, will try this week to rush it to the floor of the Republican- controll ed Senate as a rider to an unrelated bill, with strong prospects of getting a vote. In the Democratic-controlled House, the trade subcommittee of Ways and Means last week approved...
...waits for the sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office...
Doctors suspect that interferon may be most effective not as a solo performer but in conjunction with other medications. "No single drug is the optimal treatment for any common cancer," says Dr. Ernest Borden of the University of Wisconsin. "The big question over the next five years will be how to combine interferons with other treatments." Particularly promising, says Borden, is combining several types of interferon, since one form seems to enhance the effects of another. Doctors are also excited about the possibility of using interferon together with another powerful, naturally occurring anticancer agent called tumor necrosis factor. "Interferon...
...antipathy toward Move also strengthened the mayor's hand. As Ernest Jones, executive director of the Philadelphia Urban Coalition, said, "Everybody wanted to get Move out of there. Even now, you don't hear people complaining about the lives that were lost...