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...tuberculosis, dysentery. Any Indian born today on a reservation has a life expectancy of only 36 years against a neighboring white child's 61. Half the deaths (and nearly all the premature deaths) among Indians are from diseases that the white man's medicines can prevent or cure...
...luckless touring on the winter circuit (in 1953 he won a total of $13-75), how did Jack Fleck win the big one in San Francisco? The trick-turner was the change in his putting. Although he once offered up to $1,000 to other pros if they could cure his woes on the green, Fleck suddenly realized early in the Open that "everyone putts his own way." He promptly sank a 22-footer, went on to three sparkling rounds of 30 putts or less...
...cure for this situation is the turboprop, which is coming into use in transports, notably the British Viscount. Most of the energy that it develops spins a geared propeller that moves a large volume of air comparatively slowly and yields almost ideal propulsive efficiency. But propellers have many failings at high speed, and few enginemen think they will serve above. 450 m.p.h...
...party had no adequate warning of what was happening." The Communists were hungry for a scapegoat. A meeting last week of the five national secretaries of the party found one. They decided "to liberate Comrade Roveda" from his onerous duties and told him to go take a health cure. To succeed the ousted comrade, they appointed 50-year-old Novella, the man who put the finger on Roveda...
Mediterranean to Baltic. Not all festivals can offer a patroness named Kunigunde, or a liver cure, but in their own way, 43 villages, towns and cities in West Germany are staging "musical manifestations" this summer. In the rest of Europe, from Mediterranean to Baltic Sea, there are some half a hundred more. Seventeen of them have found it advisable to band together to avoid conflicts in scheduling, programming and hiring of artists, and to prevent rivalries from breaking...