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...policeman is rarely popular, but reputable makers and marketers of foods and drugs are deeply grateful to FDA for bringing peace and order to a once chaotic business. Its top job has traditionally gone to career men, and industry has violently opposed any attempt by politicians to make it a patronage plum. Current FDA boss is George P. Larrick, 54, who entered the service as an inspector, was promoted to the commissionership...
...FDA took 1,300 cases to Federal courts, won 98% without contest, won four-fifths of the 2% contested. Among last week's batch of decisions...
...Herbalist William H. Cruez of East St. Louis, Ill., who sold worthless concoctions to FDA inspectors posing as sufferers from arthritis, diabetes and swollen feet, was sentenced to a year in jail...
Concerning your brief June 4 report on the sentencing of Dr. Wilhelm Reich [for violating an injunction by distributing orgone energy boxes]: the agents of the FDA have conspired with others to kill a great discovery. The tremendous scope and accomplishment of orgonomy, in a world in which lifetimes are devoted to the study of an ear or a nose, has in one way been a hindrance to its penetration in society. The ramifications of orgonomy into all branches of science, stemming from the single basic discovery of orgone energy, the erstwhile hypothetical ether which science, for good reason...
...pill circuit in the Southeast has cooled considerably as a result of the drive, but the FDA is not kidding itself: the dangerous racket persists elsewhere, may be spreading. Even if a half-emptied bottle of co-pilots is found in the pocket of a driver who has been killed by driving his truck off the road, it is usually impossible to prove cause and effect. But traffic authorities and truck companies agree that this is a likely result when drivers dose themselves with bennies to stay awake while they burn up the roads, day and night, without rest. Many...