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...years as a desert surgeon, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury saw only 66 cases of cancer among Arizona's Navajos, with not a single breast cancer among the women. To pin down the difference between cancer rates among Navajos and the surrounding whites, Arizona and the U.S. Public Health Service are launching an intensive survey. Then they will try to find out what causes the difference...
...businessmen of their new responsibilities. "Business is on trial in Washington," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told a convention of magazine publishers at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "Business is also on trial in Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
...Pentagon system. Continuing the investigation touched off last month (TIME, March 16 et seq.) by former Eighth Army Commander James A. Van Fleet, the subcommittee heard about "the system" from top Defense Department officials and ex-officials. Harry Byrd, who did most of the questioning, kept trying to pin responsibility to individuals, but after a long day's questioning, he growled: "We have not got a single name yet of anybody who has responsibility for this condition...
Their specific mission, explained Schnuffler Cohn, was to "see if there's waste and mismanagement, and to pin down responsibility." They also planned to question possible security risks among employees of the U.S. High Commission for Germany, and, as an added assignment, they would inspect the books on the shelves of USIS libraries. Cohn and Schine reckoned it would take them only about ten days to accomplish their staggering mission...
...more expensive big brother, the long-barreled revolver, shoots for a guaranteed 75 feet, and further, if boosted with a special jet squirt. The sleek, narrow barrel aims with pin-point accuracy, known to flick a pencil from a hand. Even the great man of guns, Ed McGiverin, claims no such feats in his "Fast and Famous Revolver Shooting...