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Reluctantly, last spring, greying Fiorello LaGuardia admitted to himself that he was not well. He was 64, but he awaited a cure with characteristic impatience. As a radio commentator, columnist and freelance oracle, he was as full of furious plans as he had been during his twelve years as mayor of New York. He went to Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital for an operation in June, hoping to hear that he could soon go on breaking lances against the enormous villains with whom his frenetic world was peopled. Instead, he heard his death sentence-he was suffering from cancer...
Chen continued: "The job of eliminating squeeze must begin here in the very center of the northeast. Those who have illegally seized houses and lands from civilians must restore them immediately to their rightful owners. This is an order. We will cure or kill. Or we'll send those who disobey home without houses and lands. . . . Some of you sitting here, whose names I'll not mention, have been talking smartly, but let me warn you that accusations have been made." The 100 guests no longer smiled...
...acids and other digestive juices. Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, lysozyme is also present in tears and saliva, is found in abnormal amounts in the stomachs of ulcer patients, seems to be produced in extra-large quantities during emotional upsets. The researchers hope that a cure for ulcers may be found in chemicals that inhibit the enzyme (they have already found one inhibitor: dodecyl sulfate...
Summing up the reports, the congress president, Dr. Edmund V. Cowdry of Washington University, said: "Slowly we are closing in on the culprit, cancer." Some hopeful researchers predicted that a cure (or cures) may be found within the next 10 to 15 years...
...normal cell growth) probably accounts for some of the abnormal behavior of cells in leukemia. Their discovery may eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...