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...prints take about a minute to develop, one-twentieth the time required for conventional X rays; more important, they are far easier to read and interpret. In a series of 1,535 examinations performed during the past year, Martin uncovered 54 cancers. Thirteen of the cancers had been previously unsuspected, and all were detected before they had spread beyond the original site. Because of the promising results in Houston, hospitals in Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit have ordered the new equipment and will soon be using xeroradiography to get an early warning of breast cancer...
McCloskey would consider a vote of 25 per cent as a successful display of support for his candidacy. "We will interpret a vote of 25 per cent as an incentive to go on and a vote of 30 per cent will mean we are on the offensive and that we will go on to primaries in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Oregon, California, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, New Hampshire campaign manager Mike Brower explained. McCloskey has a permanent staff of about 16 people, with 60 volunteers coming up on weekends and over 60 more recruited on a full time...
...only noble thing to do for the poor neglected black Americans. Does our Constitution state that all neighborhoods and schools must have a mixture of every race and nationality in them? There are some people who prefer to live with their own nationality or race. Because some interpret this as an evil racist attitude, the right of people to live with whom they please is denied. Is it the courts' duty to arrange us all in a very colorful pattern...
Psychiatric assumptions underlie much of the book. "Adults demand that children understand what they're trying to say," Betsy Drake points out, "but too often they interpret a child's most serious moments as stupid or cute or funny. So children, in self-defense, learn to play for the laugh. It's a style of craziness, a style of survival, a style of distancing. I learned this style as a child but I'm not really impressed with my comic or ironic side. I'd much rather write straight out of despair...
...care proposal--which dealt with the entire question of child socialization--was narrowly defeated in the closest vote of the conference. In a compromise settlement, its important provisions were tacked on to the economy proposal. All the priorities were long and somewhat vague; local chapters will be able to interpret them broadly...