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...first step, the Health Services will issue a pamphlet this month emphasizing that long-time cigarette smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer and chronic bronchitis than non-smokers...
...government, said Home, its choice "is whether to treat the country as a chronic invalid, taking its temperature and feeling its pulse every five minutes to see if it is strong enough to be told the facts of life, or whether to assume that the body politic of the country is robust and its mind mature and its heart sound and to tell the people what the hour demands, confident they will rise to the occasion. The country has a right to assume that men's minds will be as modern as the machinery they tend, that private enterprise...
Cornell has developed a case of chronic inconsistency, a disturbing disease which struck last Saturday in the presence of the Colgate Red Raiders. During the week several injuries have also developed at Ithaca. These might normally be fatal, but this week's opponent is a rather weak Lehigh. Look for Gary Wood to salvage enough of a team to carry the Big Red through, but do not expect much of a runaway...
Communist officialdom blamed disastrous droughts and freezes for the poor harvest. But Nikita Khrushchev angrily blamed sloppy management for chronic agricultural crises. U.S. farmers, said Nikita, protect their fertilizer in plastic bags, but in Russia the piles of mineral fertilizer shipped out from factories are allowed to lie around in heaps, exposed to the weather. In winter, snorted Nikita, kids slide down the piles on their sleds. Making another of his Utopian promises to catch up with U.S. production, Khrushchev also said that by 1965 Russia hoped to turn out 35 million tons of fertilizer. Though this would equal...
...Turkey will be by far the Market's poorest sister. Two-thirds of its 30 million people are illiterate, more than 10% of its work force is unemployed, and per capita income averages $200. Foreign trade, which swings around agriculture, is in chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely...