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...rotten government had left the average Cuban too cynical about democracy to fight in its behalf. When Grau San Martin was swept into office in 1944 on a wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government in its history...
...most disheartening features of the battle against the disease is that so many promising trails, seeming to lead toward a cure, suddenly come to a dead end. Two researchers in Boston (where the disease is inexplicably commoner than in most cities) thought they had the answer in unbalanced iron and vitamin rations given to prematures. In Baltimore, Drs. William and Ella Owens seemed to get good results in arresting the disease with a vitamin E preparation (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949), but other doctors could not duplicate their results. Some eyemen report
...should be particularly significant. For modern man seems to live in a Good Friday age. Sheen believes that man, his faith in God shaken, has retreated within his own self, but has found there no peace, only shallow and temporary comforts. Disillusioned by a welter of scientific and political cure-alls, he looks for resurrection, but too often he wants it without sacrifice and before death -"promises of salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifices, Christ without His nails." Adds Sheen: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday...
Doctors cannot be sure how much they have done for Norman Bennett and others in his plight. They will not talk about a "cure," or even a "fiveyear cure" or a "ten-year cure." But they are confident that they have done a lot of good...
...injected directly into the tumor mass in certain cases of cancer of the cervix or of the prostate gland. This work is still in its infancy; in the standard medical summary, "the results are encouraging but inconclusive." Far more widespread is the use of radiogold, with no thought of cure but _ simply to ease the pain and inconvenience of excess fluid formation in cancers of the chest or abdominal cavity...