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Starting Again. Defeat week after week has been a bitter pill for cocky Jack Nicklaus to swallow. He still abhors the taste. "For two years," he said, "I was expected to win every tournament I entered. If I didn't. I was a bum. I liked being top man. You've got to have the confidence that you can win; you've got to expect to win. If you don't, you have no business being there. As an amateur, I had it. I was on top. Now I've just got to work...
...however, it looks like comfort is once again on the way out. Creases are sharpening, suit materials are stiffening and even thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
...Beeching's bitterest pill was not the price increase, though it marked a 50% rise in ticket prices in 30 months (to 5.25? a mile for first class...
...backfires to a minimum. FDA first provisionally licenses a new drug"for investigational use only" (after testing in animals), whereupon most manufacturers get research physicians to try their product on 1,000 to 3,000 patients. It was this step-by-step procedure that fortuitously kept thalidomide. the sleeping pill now suspected of causing many malformations in babies in Europe and elsewhere (TIME, Feb. 23), off the U.S. markets. A sharp-eyed woman doctor on the FDA staff was not satisfied with a detail in the evidence submitted by the manufacturers with their application for a license. FDA asked...
...that the American Medical Association will take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives. No one expects television companies to devote expensive advertising space to public service pronouncements about smoking and cancer. A nation of health cranks and pill takers will probably go on smoking as before; and the cancer rate will also go on as before...