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...raising up his loins in thanksgiving at the climactic moment of a healing ritual held to restore the sexual potency of a wealthy Indian chief, he had to leave town one jump ahead of the law. But by then Bebb's daughter Sharon had an occasion to cure Antonio of his chastity...
This program raises the question of whether McGovern understands, as Lyndon Johnson did not, that spending more money does not necessarily cure social ills. At minimum, though, McGovern has picked the right targets. With rare exceptions, such as his proposal to increase price supports on wheat and dairy products, his plans zero in on obvious and urgent social needs. McGovern would also begin the long-overdue process of shifting the funding of social programs away from cities and states, which pay for them with inefficient and regressive sales and property taxes, to the Federal Government, which can pay with generally...
...Agriculture-is its application to Dutch elm disease. The problem now is to persuade communities and private tree owners to undertake the effort and expense ($75 per tree per year) needed to make the treatment work. When John Hansel, executive director of the Elm Research Institute, took the cure to Denver last February, the mayor refused to see him. The city had its own method for treating the disease-simply cut down and burn infected trees. Says Hansel: "We've come a lot farther in dealing with the beetle than we have with the politicians...
...hearing Chinese spoken instead of English, seeing new faces, new uniforms, new surroundings and eating Chinese hay and grain. Hoof stock don't travel as well as, say, pandas." Sure enough, late last week word came from Peking that Milton and Matilda had recovered. Reed attributes the cure to his recommended treatment of antibiotics and "tender loving care." Or was it perhaps acupuncture...
...column to prevent involvement of the nervous system a frequent and fatal complication of the disease. Dr. Joseph Simone of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis told an American Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute meeting in New York that this dual approach may ultimately lead to a cure for childhood leukemia. Of 30 youngsters to undergo the treatment, 18 have enjoyed complete relief for at least 3½ years. Dr. James Holland of Buffalo reported success with a straight chemotherapeutic approach. Twenty-seven children were treated with drug combinations during the past 3½ years; only...