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Climbing Costs. Last week such humble dramas of achievement were taking place at ten schools scattered all over Chicago. In a mass attack on illiteracy, the first of its kind in a big U.S. city, Chicago has set out to cure thousands of men and women of what Raymond W. Hilliard, director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid, calls "infectious ignorance" - uneducated, unemployable people breeding ever greater numbers of children who in turn grow up to be uneducated and unemployable...
...this as a unique form of asthma, but this does not mean the Japanese are immune: five native Japanese have come down with it, and the only victim who died was a Nisei from Hawaii. Army medics once thought that evacuation from the Kanto smog zone effected a geographic cure, but now they find many victims with continuing symptoms long after return...
...Democrat Alan S. Boyd, 40, made it plain that he was anxious to do something about the plight of the nation's airlines. Plagued by skyrocketing costs and too many empty seats, the country's trunk lines dropped over $35 million last year. Boyd's proposed cure: more mergers to create stronger companies. Said he: "It takes a big company to sustain the burden of keeping pace, when aircraft cost $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 apiece...
Ceremonially blowing smoke to the four winds, Mayan priests puffed their pipes to please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...cause of the cold war. By Freudian analysis, he traces the origins of the cold war to the pent-up emotions of Americans that must have aggressive outlets. After damning nearly everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for continuing the cold war, Goodman announces his own cure for cold war tensions: "An occasional fist fight, a better orgasm, friendly games, a job of useful work, being moved by things that are beautiful, curious or wonderful...