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...Germany, which before Hitler had one of the world's lowest T.B. rates and now has one of the highest. Each week there are 400 new T.B. cases and 150 deaths in Berlin alone. The U.S. occupation zone has 117,983 T.B. patients...
Taft himself has emphasized the importance of the situation when he said recently that "nothing is closer to the welfare of the people" and that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance...
This not uncommon appeal across a drugstore counter spawns one of the world's meanest, lowest rackets. As every druggist knows, the customer who makes this plea is interested in abortion and usually wants a box of pills (often hideously expensive). As every gynecologist knows, pills don't work-and are highly dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food & Drug Administration let it be known that it had launched a determined drive against the thriving abortion-drug trade...
These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
First among these stands tuition. Today Harvard has the lowest rates of any major college in the East. Yale, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. have succumbed to the onslaught of higher costs by raising their tuition, and there is no guarantee that Harvard will not be forced to follow suit in the future. But, as Mr. Bender points out, a raise in tuition may "price Harvard out of the market" when it comes to maintaining its standings as a democratic institution on a national basis. Students from the Mid and Far West would be unlikely to shell out increased tuition, and another...