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Biggest question in prevention today is how the rise in lung cancer-virtually confined to heavy-smoking men-can be checked and reversed. Rod Heller, bureaucrat and son of a tobacco-growing state (although he has never smoked), has weighed all the conflicting evidence and arrived at a forthright conclusion: "Statistical evidence, supported by laboratory findings, has shown that excessive cigarette smoking can be a cause of lung cancer, and that the greater the consumption of cigarettes, the greater the risk." Practical Dr. Heller sees little prospect of changing U.S. smoking habits, pins his hopes for lung-cancer prevention...
...have often wondered how a man in his early 30s (I am 31) would stand up under such intensive grilling, and I was heartened by Reid's sensible, forthright answers to difficult questions. Young Ogden Reid should do well in young Israel...
With their more or less approving students, these prominent professors form a potent group that likes to refer to itself as "liberal." But some of its more forthright members, such as Professor Sam Beer, openly describe their philosophy as "radical democracy," and the group as a whole might best be called the Respectable Radicals...
...This forthright discussion of the primary educational objectives of the Museum might have been the last word about the Museum's obligation to the community had it not been for the recent revival of interest in the works of primitive cultures...
TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE : Say what you will of her reasons for resigning, her statement of them was forthright and plausible enough. Over and above the fact that Morse's ugly words had smeared her. she noted that Morse is chairman of the subcommittee on Latin American affairs, and that in the embassy she could expect no support from the chairman. It seems she has set the Senator from Oregon a splendid example. He should resign as chairman of the subcommittee...