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...other hand, said Dr. Hodges, medicine has a legitimate complaint about premature reporting. "Newspapers latch on to a morsel of partly cooked medical news and serve it up to the reading public in its raw state. Your new 'cancer cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...
Democratic Peace. The Republicans, charged De Sapio, are attempting to "gorge the American voter on this charming metaphoric morsel-peace and prosperity. The Republicans talk of peace as if it were something which they invented and . . . which only they could safeguard. They ignore the fact that peace, as it exists today, is the direct result of the bipartisan foreign policy worked out by the Democratic Administration...
Last week he headed for Chicago, where he had a juicy morsel awaiting him. His new target: the black market in babies...
...starved village of Bica, in the Brazilian state of Ceará, without rain for three years. "With the proud hospitality of the backlands we were invited to share the only food in the village. The meal was xique-xique (cactus), grilled over a small fire and eaten with a morsel of desert rat. When we left, we gave the mayor what food we had in the car: some oranges and biscuits. He thanked us and said the gift would go to the village children...
...long-awaited event was an anticlimax. By the time Joe McCarthy raised a broad right hand and took the witness' oath at midweek, the suspicions, facts, hunches, charges and countercharges had been so well chewed over in seven weeks of hearings that not a morsel of fresh meat remained. On Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins' invitation to draw upon his "knowledge and experience," McCarthy first gave a lengthy lecture on Communist Party organization and tactics, amply illustrated for TV viewers by a large map (which Joe acknowledged was four years out of date...