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...really big concern that gnaws most steelworkers today," reports Lubell, "is the dread of unemployment." And with an economic sophistication that might surprise some of their union chieftains, many steelworkers see that "raising wages may mean less jobs," that higher costs in U.S. steel mills spur imports of foreign steel. Concludes Pollster Lubell: "Often it is asserted that labor leaders have little choice but to demand ever higher wages because of pressure from their own membership . . . My talks with steelworkers leave little doubt that currently the main pressures for 'more' are being generated by the union leaders...
...Flag, Up Rent. Having been brought up in this sort of atmosphere, Sooi saw that the case of Lots 91 and 92 could mean more to him than just easy foraging land for his pigs. He saved up his money after the war, in 1952 bought the nine houses from the railway. He promptly hoisted the Belgian flag, demanded that his new tenants pay Belgian rents rather than the lower Dutch rents. Later, he decided that since there was still so much confusion as to the nationality of the land, he would declare it "Sooi" soil until the bosses...
...Army team tested 4,995 cervical and vaginal smears with acridine orange, they detected 171 "suspicious" cases compared to 156 in a retest by the Papanicolaou technique. When they later did biopsies on nine of the 15 Papanicolaou "negatives," they found cancer in seven cases. This does not necessarily mean that the new method is more accurate. But it can definitely speed up cancer screening. At Walter Reed, cell-smear staining with acridine orange now takes twelve minutes, against half an hour with the Papanicolaou technique...
Little Hope. Ultimate symptoms multiply-delirium tremens, extreme nervousness, avitaminosis. The patient deteriorates physically, socially, maritally, emotionally, occupationally, neurologically. Treatment becomes more difficult; the prognosis rapidly dims. The alcoholic has hit bottom. Mean time for Dr. O'Hollaren's 147 patients: 18.4 years...
Painters & Probers. By art, Barzun seems to mean a cult of the sensibility; by science, a mystical cult of facts; and by philanthropy, he means a kind of goofy general doctrine of charity that holds that no idea or person can be dismissed just because the idea is absurd or the person incompetent...