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...truer commitment than I made that day as a child." Afterward, his father warned him that some of his playmates might tease him about it. "If they do," he advised, "tell them Yes, I've been baptized, and I only wish you had been, too." Decision in Hammond. The Adams family moved to a pastorate in industrial Hammond, Ind. As a high-school student there, Ted found his life work. "I was reading, of all things, the life of Billy Sunday. When I finished, I went upstairs to think about what I had read...
Straw Vote. In Hammond, Ind., Republican Mayor Vernon Anderson gracefully bowed to the wishes of the 18,000 people who signed a petition urging him to run for another term, ran again, lost by a score of 15,937 votes to his opponent...
...poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial companies to send him chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory near Rogers City, Mich, has tested more than 5,000 of them. Out of this laborious screening has come a single compound that kills infant lampreys without hurting rainbow trout or bluegill sunfish. It is now being tested on other fish, and if it still looks good, next...
Since cancer is mainly a disease of the second half of life (95% Of cases are among people over 35), Hammond made no bones about the growing problem: "In 1900 there were only 23 million Americans 35 years of age and over. Today there are 70 million. [In 1965] there will be 81 million, and [in 1975] at least 86 million. Thus no matter how successful the [cancer control] program may be, the magnitude of the problem will increase. If death rates continue at exactly the present level, the annual cancer death toll will rise to 288,000 within...
Statistician Hammond hopefully answered his own question: "One-third of all those who die of cancer could be saved by methods known to us now." If this is accomplished in the next ten years and lung cancer is controlled, only 173,000 will die in 1965. But, said Hammond, there is a big if: these lives can be saved only if physicians apply present knowledge with maximum effectiveness. And what doctors can do depends basically on what cancer victims do-how soon they go for examinations when they have suspicious symptoms, how soon they have an operation after...