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...scholarship scheme that produces fine officers with fewer dropouts. The Air Force is already trying to end the massive "lost motion" of its semi-compulsory ROTC program (TIME. Dec. 28). Some Pentagon experts estimate that half the Army's college units could lose their compulsory status by 1970 without endangering the Army's supply of new officers...
...retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...
Focused Beam. Dr. Baronofsky, 42, figured out a way of using irritation, but without the knife. X rays, in properly adjusted doses, cause transient irritation without doing actual damage. Tests with hundreds of dogs showed that survival rates jumped fourfold or better after an artificially simulated heart attack, if the animals were irradiated. Then some were killed, and dissection of their hearts showed that small artery branches had multiplied...
...many heart attack victims may be benefited if the radiation technique fulfills its inventors' hopes cannot yet be guessed. Most important is the fact that if it works, it can be done without anesthesia, and by any experienced radiologist in his office...
...Baron, 23, a chemical engineering major (he has since quit school to give full time to the business), and Ray Keche-ley, 22, majoring in business administration, were won over by Dr. Poindexter's offer to screen applicants without a fee. Even the scheme's sponsors were surprised by the applicants' qualifications: fully half had some college education, and about 20% had college degrees. In their case histories could be found the whole gamut of emotional illnesses. Some were still on active follow-up treatment; others were taking only tranquilizers. Some were rated as fully rehabilitated-except...