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...effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis ("wryneck"), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks. It also helps some (but by no means all) cases of cerebral palsy and Parkinsonism...
...Memorial Day, Bryan and the Belond could expect a stiff fight from the car with the fastest qualifying time: the Racing Associates Special, complete with cockpit built to the specifications of Driver Johnny Thomson, after an anthropologist took his measurements to determine the most comfortable driving position for a man of Thomson's size (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.). Thomson's average qualifying speed: a hefty 145.908 m.p.h. Another advantage: he will start from the No. i pole position...
Died. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 80, aristocratic, stiff-collared Argentine diplomat, only South American to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1936, for his work in ending the three-year-old Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay); of influenza; in Buenos Aires...
Kirkland House's top-seeded shell won the annual House crew race yesterday, defeating Winthrop by a one-length margin. The Deacons covered the one-mile course in 5:42.2, as a fairly stiff headwind kept all times rather slow...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Stiff upper lips in the hospital ward, as displayed by Inger Stevens, Mary Astor, Victor Jory and Mildred Dunnock...