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...erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...
Noting that there are 250,000 or more divorces yearly in the U.S., the Church suggested a cure: ". . . Complete un formity of standards in divorce laws...
...employers and unions alike know that ballyhoo alone is not the cure. Unions emphasize the impact of bad scheduling and materials shortages upon worker morale : why beat your brains out today when outside causes will lay you off tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...
...cure is yet to be found-treatments in use are eyewashes and applications to reduce swelling. Drs. Hogan and Crawford published their article so that physicians, especially in areas like Detroit, which the disease has not yet reached, can learn to recognize it, isolate patients early to prevent further spreading...
...proposal was attacked and ridiculed as soon as it appeared. "Bargain-basement education . . . smacks of Alice in Wonderland . . . educational charlatanism," growled Dr. Edwin R. Van Kleeck, New York's assistant commissioner of Instructional Supervision. The speed-up "would make more headaches than it would cure," warned Dean Herbert Hawkes of Columbia. Students "would be coming into the colleges with a year less maturity, and the difficulties.of adjustments would be even more serious than they...