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...stage is now set for ultimate resolution of this thing," said Director Kenneth Endicott of the National Cancer Institute last week, with a vast sigh of relief. Under last year's tightened drug-control laws, the Food and Drug Administration is at last launching an all-out investigation to answer a question that has caused savage controversy for twelve years: Is there any basis for the claims that Krebiozen, a mysterious horse-serum drug, is a cure for some forms of cancer? Though Krebiozen has never been approved by any federal agency, about 3,500 doctors have given...
...closed mind. He was so sure of his divine mission that he never bothered to sort out his ideas. Consequently, he was always contradicting himself without noticing it. He oscillated between extreme positions, never coming to rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water cures, spiritualism...
...recent National Conference on Religion and Race [Jan. 25]. Religious bodies in the U.S. deserve their quota of blame for neglect of the acute racial issue. But I fail to see past failures as an excuse for scoffing at an honest effort to marshal joint religious forces in an all-out assault upon the rapidly growing spirit of racial hatred. Are we to leave untried the power of a united appeal to our country's conscience just because it looks funny to see Protestants, Jews and Catholics sitting down at the same table...
...which include 400,000 U.S. troops) to a programmed 30 divisions. "We must continue to do everything in our power to persuade our allies to meet their NATO goals," he says, and he means De Gaulle most of all. "Until these capabilities are achieved, the defense of Europe against an all-out Soviet attack, even if such an attack were limited to non-nuclear means, would require the use of tactical nuclear weapons on our part." McNamara also is striving to increase NATO's tactical airpower, has approved the purchase of more than 1,000 supersonic Phantom II fighters...
...amend Senate Rule XXII. He proposed that the rule permit debate to be shut off by three-fifths rather than two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. Georgia's Richard Russell had already served notice that any attempt to change the cloture rule would be met with "an all-out, last-ditch, to-the-end-of-the-road fight." Thereupon the Southern Democrats arose to start talking to death-as they had in previous years-the effort of Northern Democrats...