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...arteries and leave a woman vulnerable to heart at tacks. Regular doses of estrogens, says the University of Chicago's Dr. M. Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication a woman might need. "Estrogens are not the fountain of youth," added Brooklyn's Dr. Henry S. Acken Jr., "but they may be the springs that feed the fountain...
Fulbright developed a bitter animosity toward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over Dulles' brinkmanship policies and his cancellation of funds for Egypt's Aswan dam. "He misleads public opinion," Fulbright said, "confuses it, feeds it pap...
...used to be the most common site of fatal cancer in women. Today, thanks mainly to early detection with the Papanicolaou smear, it is far less deadly. "With 44,000 new cases expected next year, there will be an estimated 14,000 deaths. The A.C.S. believes that an annual "Pap" smear test for all 58 million women...
would save most of these lives. So far, only about 28 million women have ever had a Pap test, and fewer than 10 million have one annually. Cancer of the breast, with 62,000 new cases and 26,000 deaths expected next year, has displaced uterine disease as the major cancer threat to women...
...center of the play, literally and figuratively, is his recital of how he came to be where he is and how, too rich in imagination, he imprisoned with him the other characters. He cries helplessly and regularly for his "pain-killer," just as his father cries for pap and Clov ponders escape. And at the end the stage is littered with superfluous symbols and phrases that express from all angles the meanness of a man without love and without courage...