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...earliest stage of laryngeal cancer over 90% of those patients treated are free of disease at the end of five years and beyond. Further, even the surgical treatment of laryngeal cancer is unfairly represented by the 60% control figure which your article mentions. In lesions of limited extent, partial laryngectomy is also able to achieve a control rate of better than 90% with preservation of a good, if not entirely normal voice...
Earlier in the week, as if in fear of the large-scale invasion he constantly foresees, Castro staged a partial mobilization of his 400,000-man militia. Rumors spread of threatened insurrection in Las Villas province, of landings of anti-Castro guerrillas in the province's sheltered inlets. Castro's precautions may only have been set off by the recent daring attack on Havana's waterfront by two boatloads of youths from the underground Revolutionary Student Directorate. More likely, Castro reasoned that the U.S. would not stand by while Russia builds Cuba's military strength...
...until World War II, which all but destroyed it. At war's end, 40% of A.K.U.'s Dutch plant lay in ruins, five of its factories in Eastern Europe had been taken over by the Communists and two of its U.S. affiliates had been seized because of partial German ownership. (A.K.U. succeeded, however, in hanging onto one rayon-making U.S. subsidiary, American Enka, which last year grossed $114 million.) Soon after the war, to make matters worse, new synthetic fabrics began to threaten traditional markets for rayon...
...committed to a referendum on the federation question and is campaigning hard to rally his dwindling support behind his program for partial merger. Aware that time is running out, he bluntly lays on the line the alternative to Singapore's joining Malaysia. "I'm not threatening chaos," he says. "I'm predicting...
Newhouse takes a special pride in the truculence of Syracuse Her aid-Journal Editor Alexander ("Casey") Jones, whose editorial positions rarely jibe with the boss's. Newhouse is partial to New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("The type you want in politics"), and on a recent visit to Syracuse he asked for Casey's opinion of Rocky's general performance. "I think it's silly," said Casey. "Oh, that's interesting," said Casey's employer mildly ?and abandoned the subject...