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...Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...
...demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
...away most of the pain, leave the mother able to cooperate with nature. Doctors have tried many anesthetics, always found something wrong. The big drawback to "twilight sleep," popular in the early 1900s; the drugs used (scopolamine or hyoscine hydrobromide, with barbiturates) might, like too much ether and chloroform, poison the baby through the blood of the mother. Continuous caudal anesthesia, first used for childbirth in 1941, has pitfalls for inexperienced doctors (if the needle gets into the spinal canal, the mother may die of an overdose of anesthetic...
Another agricultural cult popular with city gardeners is "organic farming." Organic matter is an important component of soils, says Dr. Kellogg, "but the advocates of the organic matter doctrine go very far. They insist that ... the usual chemical fertilizers are downright poisonous to soils; that the liberal use of compost gives special qualities to plants-they will be free of insects and diseases; and that animals, or even people, will be ever so much more healthy by eating plants grown 'the organic way.' " Most of this is silly, says Dr. Kellogg politely. Organic compost is no cureall...
...Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...