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Amphetamines and barbiturates get into illegal channels from makers of basic chemicals, drug manufacturers, distributors, retail drugstores, and, says the FDA's Sadusk, "even from physicians." In an effort to plug that last leak, the A.M.A. issued a warning to doctors to prescribe only the required amount of any drug for specific symptoms, and not to write prescriptions that can be refilled indefinitely...
...much of today's journalism would be all but impossible without anonymous information. In Washington, where the calculated leak has become a Government tactic, the not-for-attribu-tion story is a fact of journalistic life. Says Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News: "Any new reporter in Washington, fresh from the city hall beat where he was accustomed to putting nothing in the paper without identifying the source, will find that if he tries that here, his sources will...
Forewarned, forearmed. Williams appeared in the Senate chamber and challenged the Rules Committee Democrats to repudiate the source of the leak or to "repeat in my presence and in the presence of the full Senate any charges or criticisms that they care to make." Said he: "As one who has tried, notwithstanding numerous rebuffs and insults, to cooperate with this committee and to keep this investigation on the proper track, I do not intend that these charges by innuendo go unchallenged...
...heat of the reactor is carried away by a sodium-potassium alloy (NaK) that turns to liquid at 48°F. A beryllium reflector 2½ in. thick bounces escaping neutrons back into the uranium and keeps the reactor operating. When four openings in the reflector are uncovered, neutrons leak away, slowing or stopping the nuclear reaction...
...provides a stern test of his elected involvement in life. After the Lions lose the big one to Princeton, he can think of no more fitting show of unimpaired allegiance than a joyous death leap into the Hudson River, crying against the night "We number one in the Ivory Leak...