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...frankly, and was rewarded with rousing applause. Later, addressing a contingent from the American Association of University Professors, Kennedy said: "The Negroes in this country cannot be expected indefinitely to tolerate the injustices which flow from official and private racial discrimination. As years pass, resentment increases. The only cure for resentment is progress. I am obligated by my oath of office to uphold and enforce the law. If you were in my position, you could do no less than...
Babies born with transposition of the great vessels-the aorta where the pulmonary artery ought to be, and vice versa -now face a problem for which there is no true cure. Why not cut out the baby's heart, ask the Stanford men. turn it around and sew it back so that the two sides of the heart exchange jobs...
Especially in the House of Representatives, long a sacred cow pasture, the prospects for such substantial changes as these are not nearly as optimistic as they ought to be. The legislature's Republican caucus would not be altogether gratified by the enactment of bills which might prove an effective cure-all for Gov. Peabody's ailing prestige...
Once they have a clue to the cause of a disease, medical researchers often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males...
...Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good...