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Long Survivals. Despite remaining difficulties, the outlook for victims of acute lymphocytic leukemia continues to improve. Since 1964, the proportion of patients who gain complete if temporary remissions as a result of intensive treatment has gone up from 50% to 90%, said Dr. Zubrod, and the median survival time has stretched from 19 months to three years or more. A few patients have done still better, reported Sloan-Kettering's Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal. He knows of 87 children and 16 adults who are alive five years after first diagnosis, with no detectable disease. Indeed, 29 of them have...
...median time interval form issue to trial in civil cases in our district courts increased to twelve months last year as compared with eleven month in the previous year. As the practicing bar so well knows, the picture in many of our state and local courts is far more serious. I suggest to you that the challenge which this critical situation poses for us is one which we must meet promptly, courageously and with the kind of initiative and imagination that has often characterized our national endeavors in other fields...
...federal system priority is given, as of course it must be, to calendaring criminal cases for trial. It is thus the clients, the parties in civil litigation, who suffer most directly from the consequences of delay. In the last five years the median time...
...Commander. Rockwell came upon his tortured creed by accident. Born in 1918, the son of a vaudeville co median, he dropped out of Brown University in 1940 to become a Navy pilot because, as he later said, he believed "all that hooey about Hitler." Recalled during the Korean War with the rank of commander, he got his first glimpse of racist literature from a Navy couple in San Diego. At first he skimmed, then read deeply. Soon he had graduated to a secondhand edition of Mein Kampf. "I was hypnotized, transfixed," said Rockwell. "Within a year...
...profound question is still "Why?" Poverty, of course, is part of the answer. A survey released by the National Industrial Conference Board last week, for example, disclosed that fully one-fourth of U.S. families now earn at least $10,000 a year-a reminder to the Negro, whose median family income is $4,000, of the distance he still has to travel. Impatience is another ingredient. All the civil rights bills, the Supreme Court decisions and the Great Society programs of recent years led many a Negro to expect that equality and prosperity were just around the next corner...