Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania and a home for females in Rhinebeck, N.Y. His board of directors includes Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, Combined Insurance Co. of America President W. Clement Stone. Wilkerson has his critics, among them some of the most eminent narcotics specialists in the U.S. "Sure, he'll cure a few who are motivated by a religious fervor," says Dr. Robert Baird of New York's Haven Clinic. "But what's he going to do-turn every addict in the country into a minister?" Used to such judgments of his work, Wilkerson bridles only at clerical critics...
Tetracycline is one of the most familiar and widely used antibiotics for the cure of infections. It has no effect against cancer. But now it seems that by a peculiar quirk, tetracycline may become one of the diagnostician's sharpest tools for cancer detection. And early detection is half the battle in curing many forms of the disease...
...small yellow mule, a goldfish bowl mounted on his saddle. To light his pipe, he conjures up a flame on the end of his thumb. Strangest of all, beneath the wrinkled makeup gleams the familiar sardonic smile of Tony Randall, an actor usually involved in fantasies that psychiatry can cure...
Still Not the Answer. Astonishingly, Dr. Brunschwig's "fiveyear cure rate" of 20% for these supposedly hopeless patients is just about the same as the survival rate for all patients after their first and much less drastic operation for cancer of other internal organs. But for all his encouraging results, Surgeon Brunschwig still does not feel that such surgery is the answer. Exenteration, he says, "is a brutal and cruel procedure." He looks forward to the day when researchers will put him out of business by discovering the drug that will kill cancer cells...
...clear light on the causes of Detroit's perennial newspaper strife; in the classic labor-management confrontation, the two unions simply demanded more money than the publishers wanted to pay. But behind the public issues lay grievances so deep, and by now so chronic, as to defy ready cure...