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...lives, struggling for each breath. Silicosis is by no means rare. It causes more than 20% of the "natural deaths" among the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania. In eight hard-coal counties, there are 1,000 new cases a year. But little has been done thus far to check or cure the disease...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...
...valedictorian of her high-school class at Flagstaff, she became the first to win a new $2,000 annual scholarship for Indian girls at New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison along...
...points out that even if it succeeds to the full extent of its blueprint, it will be unable to remedy the basic imbalance (she thinks that by 1951 Western Europe will still buy $13 billion worth more goods than it can sell in the U.S.). The long-range cure, and the long-range bulwark against Communism, must be a supreme European effort toward Western Union...
...Chicago auditorium last week to hear Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...