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...concern. Most Americans view their personal situations as reflecting "overall contentment and assumption of fulfillment of much of the traditional American dream." Yet, the survey finds, most citizens feel that the nation's difficulties are rooted in fundamental, systemic causes, and that something needs to be done to cure the larger anomie. There is some comfort in this attitude, the very opposite of narrow I'm-all-right-Jackism...
President Nixon, meanwhile, had moved quickly to regain the initiative. In his State of the Union speech last January, Nixon asked Congress to increase its cancer-research budget of $232 million by $100 million. But, contrary to the Senate subcommittee's proposal, the Administration urged that any cancer-cure program be kept within the existing structure...
...prognosis is poor. Doctors can often slow or even halt the progress of cancer by surgery, radiation and drugs; but, though researchers have uncovered many disparate clues (TIME, April 19), they do not yet understand the workings of most forms of the disease, let alone how to cure...
...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...
Backers of an independent agency, however, maintained that a concerted effort is needed to exploit recent progress toward understanding the causes of cancer and ultimately develop a cure...