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...Many drugs work their way out of the system so fast that to keep a steady concentration, patients have to take pills several times a day and sometimes during the night. Smith, Kline & French are getting around this with "Spansules"-capsules like a load of bird shot, filled with tiny pills which have coatings of varying thickness, so that a few dissolve every now & then. Manhattan neurologists find them excellent, when filled with amphetamine sulfate, for protecting epileptic patients against night seizures...
Muzzle-loader fans have to be devoted. Their guns are handmade (many fans make their own), and firing them takes effort. To load a flintlock rifle, the marksman 1) measures out a charge of powder, 2) pours it down the barrel, 3) moistens a cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works...
...West Coast Pipeline Co., will cost $87 million, be as big as the Big Inch (24 in.). Starting from Wink, Texas, it will snake through 953 miles of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, terminating at Norwalk, near Los Angeles. It will be able to carry an initial load of 180,000 bbls. of crude a day when it is completed in the fall of 1953. As a "common-carrier," it will transport oil of independent as well as major producers...
Much of the load of corruption and maladministration which the Democrats bear in the current campaign was unearthed by congressional investigating committees during the 82nd Congress. The digging slacked off last spring, and it appeared that the Republican campaign would get no fresh ore from the congressional committees. Last week, however, brought a new spate of charges...
...stock Administration excuses for the stretch-out has been that the economy is not big enough or strong enough to carry the arms load originally planned. From this handy excuse a do-nothing atmosphere has pervaded Washington; even the Pentagon is no longer making much of an effort to increase production targets...