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...Voice in the Land. Politics fascinates Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...
Last week the Chloromycetin controversy boiled up again in hearings before the Senate Monopoly Subcommittee. Expert medical witnesses agreed that serious and fatal reactions to Chloromycetin are relatively rare. The University of Illinois' Dr. William R. Best suggested that only one patient out of 20,000 or even 100,000 might develop them. Dr. William Dameshek of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine put the rate at about one in 10,000. Either way, it sounds few enough. But so many Americans took Chloromycetin that by 1964 the American Medical Association counted 298 U.S. cases of serious...
...kooky metal staircase and the kooky neighbors running in and out. By the end of November, of course, the two are very much in love, but still Newley has to leave at midnight on the 30th as per agreement. Why? The truth is that she has some unspecified fatal illness and doesn't want him around "when it happens." So out he goes into the snow, while Sandy bravely and inanely tells her next client how beautiful it is going to be in December. And how jejune in January...
...Esteem. Hibakusha, who number about 90,000 and account for one-fifth of Hiroshima's present population, are often refused employment on the grounds that they tire easily, lack drive or are prone to fatal malignancies. They are frequently shunned as mates for fear that they carry radiation-tainted genes...
What further fatal steps have already been planned we cannot know, but the senses, to some recognition that our present military acitons are unjustifiable on any grounds. Whether we blame our leaders or our own passive complicity, we are all "honorable murderers" or "serviceable villains" until we protest these actions. Each must choose his own individual form of protest, from a private non serviam to public support for Dr. Spock, Senator McCarthy, and other courageous men who have steadfastly opposed our present military policy. Sanford Gifford, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Harvard medical School