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...anyone who wants to work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling (and the starting pay is better 'than ever). But youth's ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll...
Hopes for a cancer cure rose a notch last spring when word got out that doctors were giving serious and hopeful attention to a white powder named Krebiozen (TIME, April 9)-even though the experts carefully said it was too soon to make any claims for it. Last week the A.M.A.'s Committee on Research reported its own investigation of 100 patients treated with Krebiozen: only two showed improvement even for a little while. 98 got no benefit. 44 are now dead. A.M.A. conclusion: Krebiozen is no good...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...worst U.S. crop pests are immigrants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is usually quick to import the enemies of each new pest, but to adapt these delicate and specialized creatures to life in a new country often takes time. And if the wrong enemy is brought in, the cure may be worse than the disease...
Russian Roulette. At 17, he tried the most drastic cure for boredom he could think of: Russian roulette. He put a bullet in a revolver, spun the chambers, then put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. "It was a gamble with six chances to one against an inquest." He learned that he could enjoy the world again for a while by risking its total loss. But even toying with life became a bore. The fifth time he tried it, "I wasn't even excited." The sixth time was the last...