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High-Risk Groups. About one-fourth of all uterine cancers invade the body of the womb, usually in older women. The form that attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...Bunting then read the demonstrators a letter signed by 50 Radcliffe kitchen workers (about one-fourth of all the kitchen employees). She said she had received this letter shortly before the demonstration...
...last spring's events were reconsidered." Browning said. The Forum included an address by the new Dean of the GSD, Kilbridge, and an informal visit by President Pusey. The Forum also recommended that a GSD Forum be held each Fall and at any other time on petition from either one-fourth of the students or one-fourth of the faculty...
...there is one thing that freshmen can get easily it is advice; the Dean's Office believes that there is no excuse for those who complain that Harvard is large and impersonal. Freshmen have proctors who live closeby, advisers who are equally available, the Freshman Dean's Office which is inhabited by a group of understanding secretaries and counselors, and the Bureau of Study Counsel near the Yard. There is also the University Health Services Psychiatric Section, which is frequented at some point by one-fourth of the students; it has become a counseling service for all personal problems...
...During the past two decades, television has helped reduce attendance at local movie theaters by an estimated 60%, forcing one-fourth of them out of business. Yet, for the past half-year, the cinema-house owners have acted as if their major mission in life were to rescue TV-at least in its present form -from extinction. Moviegoers find SAVE FREE TV inscribed on marquees and are asked to sign petitions to Congress on behalf of the old archenemy. Between pictures, a message flashes onscreen warning about "the monster" out to "charge you for the very TV programs...