Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 13 cover story on Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov's official visit to this country seems excessively cynical, sarcastic and vindictive-like the reaction of the fairy-tale witch whose mirror of truth began telling her that she was no longer the fairest in the land. It will do us no good to lie to ourselves. The Russians are gaining on us in all fields and will continue to do so, regardless of TIME'S neurotic reactions...
...fact that one of us may have a bigger bomb, a faster plane or a more powerful rocket than the other at any particular time no longer adds up to an advantage. No nation in the world today is strong enough to issue an ultimatum to another without running the risk of destruction...
...goes well, Spain expects that its reforms may bring in an additional $125 million a year from tourists, who will no longer buy their pesetas on the black market. The liberalizing of imports and the streamlining of the whole process of giving out import licenses should drastically cut down on the profession of smuggling, which now accounts for one-fourth of Spanish trade. Most important of all, membership in OEEC takes Spain out of limbo and into a Western Europe progressing healthily while Spain has been deteriorating economically...
From Poison Gases. Chemotherapy, broadly defined, got its biggest boost in 1941, when Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins reported that prostate-cancer victims did better and lived longer after castration. The important thing was not the surgery, but the chemistry-removal of the main source of male sex hormones. Similar but less marked benefits resulted from "chemical castration" by administration of a female hormone. In women, some recurrent breast cancers were retarded by female hormones and others by male hormones. But these treatments relied on natural body chemicals, not synthetic magic...
...Farber can report a heartening gain. A dozen years ago, young leukemia patients lived an average of only three or four months, mostly in misery, after their disease was diagnosed. Now the average is at least a year; some live two or three years, and a few still longer. During their remissions the children appear healthy, spend most of their time at home playing happily...