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...time. But eight weeks of hearings and 108 witnesses changed all that. Again and again, Defense Department and civil defense officials emphasized the idea that "reasonable protection" from fallout could save 25 million to 65 million Americans in a nuclear assault. The shelter program, said Pittman, "is no panacea. It brings no security, only a better chance to survive." And, he added, "All objective and detailed studies of the impact of nuclear war conclude that there will be a significant measure of survival and that recuperation would take place...
...sessions in Costa Rica, Japan, Nigeria and Italy. Said Rhyne in his keynote address: "We share one great ideal which transcends our diversity-a belief that in the rule of law lies the route to world peace." World law, Rhyne cautioned, should not be thought of as "a dramatic panacea or cure-all for the world's ills, but rather a patient labor demanding immense and constant effort to develop the true basis for civilized progress and existence." Suggested Improvements. Henry R. Luce, editor in chief of TIME Inc., recalled the Biblical passage, "Blessed are the peacemakers" and pointed...
...PROMOTE FALSE REASONS FOR CHURCH UNION. "If Christians can be persuaded that the union of churches will be a virtual panacea for their ills, weaknesses, inefficiencies, disabilities and infidelities, the prospects for disillusionment are superb." So long as some Protestant Christians "are kept from seeing any union as a mandate of their God, and regard it only as a matter of expedient defense" against numerical gains by Communists, Roman Catholics or fundamentalist sects, "there is really little to fear...
...rectum could be much lower than it is, said Dr. Ravdin. Early detection and prompt treatment could save 30,000 of the 40,000 patients who die from it each year. But for breast cancer the formula of early detection and prompt treatment no longer seems to be the panacea it once was. "Despite all that has been done, the death rate from breast cancer has not changed...
...President's plan to reform the tax mechanism, set forth in the budget message as a panacea-of-sorts, was described by Leon Keyserling as "a pigmy sent out to do a giant's job." The economist explained to the Joint Economic Committee that the Kennedy tax program assumes that awarding rebates to those in the upper-brackets will provide the financial and psychological impetus to reinvest. But the program rests on a hope, and the hope itself entails certain assumptions about the risk-taking mentality of the prevailing industrial leadership...