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...A.C.S. last week backed its appeal with some pertinent statistics. In a 25-year overview of cancer mortality figures, it reported that cancer death rates seem to be leveling off and, for some forms of the disease, actually declining, as in the case of stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase...
...time since he left for China in the 30's. It had changed radically. Most of the old buildings weren't even standing, almost none of the old people were there. White realized he couldn't accurately chart history in four year chunks. So he decided to write an overview...
...Search of History, though, is not really an overview. Rather, it is a series of fascinating glimpses at large fragments of history and large personalities. White's first-person narrative covers his boyhood and his experiences in China, Europe during the 50's and the Kennedy Years. The personal narrative is held together by sketchy third-person narrations describing what actually happened during the time between the big events. Not only is this switching between reportage and narration disconcerting but it underlines the book's main problems...
...McCarthy gained him national prominence, and as one whose career eventually foundered on the Harvard Strike of 1969 Pusey's account of these years possess an intrinstic interest, less for what he actually says than for what we know of his role. Here again Pusey provides a general overview of the developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral outrage which Pusey adopted during the student outbreaks in 1969, his indignation that "Harvard men" could act in such a way, continues even nine years after the event...
...help from the State, Treasury and Defense departments and Special Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. One book dealt with the Downing Street conference, the other with the NATO summit, which Carter will also attend in London. "What he likes," says Brzezinski, "is a combination of detailed information and a large overview. He is a very quick study and has a photographic memory. He doesn't like to have a fat notebook with him when he sits down at the meetings with other world leaders. It's a point of pride with...