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...have to be moving with the trigger in the 50-yard freestyle, or better still with the triggerman's brain. Bob Keiter of Amherst was moving like that in the Easterns last night and 22.2 seconds later he had touched out captain Chouteau Dyer and set a meet record...
Since the male hormone testosterone is believed to trigger eruptions of acne, some physicians have tried treatment with female hormones. But if these have any effect, they also feminize the boy patients. For this condition, as for strokes (TIME, Feb. 4) and for coronary atherosclerosis, researchers are trying to make a female hormone that does not feminize...
...patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...time of ideological war, when it is perhaps essential for the populace to be armed with intellectual weapons, there are bound to be some casualties. There might be fewer if people would learn to distinguish between responsible sentries and vengeful snipers, between democracy's careful sergeants and its trigger-happy fools...
...first five hours of this. Security Council President Carlos Romulo wearily tried to shut Menon off, but the indefatigable Indian insisted that it would take him the better part of another session to finish his case. So far, Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon...