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...more a drug is touted as a cure for cancer, the more likely it is to be an example of fraud or quackery. But a few drugs do slow or even halt, for varying periods, the course of some kinds of cancer. The manufacturers of these products firmly specify that they have no cure; they do not want to raise false hope. And even among the most useful of cancer palliative drugs, most are not available for general prescription by all doctors; they are limited to ''investigational'' use by research physicians...
...Cure the Cure. Proposals offered to cure false cures...
...things wrong with our Western free world," said Behrendt last week, "not the least of which is the God-damned attitude of slow motion, indifference, shortsightedness toward political problems. But that's whooping cough compared with the cancer from the Soviet Union. One can cure whooping cough, but one dies of cancer...
Weightier Problems. Though no one expects that these new measures will cure all of the airlines' ills, agreement on the smaller points opens the way for the lines to seek solutions to the weightier problems also discussed by Boyd and the presidents. Both sides recognized that the single most pressing problem is overcompetition. Boyd favors mergers to eliminate wasteful competition. Says he: "There is no magic number of U.S. airlines to ensure competition." Some airline presidents prefer an orderly cutting back of over-competition on key routes, which are sometimes flown by as many as eight airlines-with most...
...says then, "and you have even made me laugh. For that I shall give you what no man has ever had before." A spring leaps out of the ground, and with its occult water, Death replenishes Macario's gourd. "With this water," he says solemnly, "you can cure any illness-if I don't object...