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...witness was wiry, bespectacled Ignatius D. Taubeneck, history teacher in the Bronxville (N.Y.) High School, who had turned up before a Senate appropriations sub-committee to present an economy petition signed by 2,000 citizens of suburban Westchester County, which borders New York City. Ex-Mayor Frederick C. McLaughlin of White Plains took it from there. Said McLaughlin...
Knife & Radiation. "External forces" are the business of Sloan-Kettering Institute and all the other centers of cancer research, which are spending something like $50 million in the U.S. annually. At present the only known cure for cancer is destruction: the surgeon's knife or radiation (X rays and radium). Such methods work well with some forms of cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital...
...surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people who now die of it. That would mean saving the lives of 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 Americans now living who are destined, on the basis of present statistics, to die of cancer...
Those whose profits had been nipped by the recession were finding some consolation around the bargaining table. The powerful C.I.O. Textile Workers Union reluctantly decided not to ask for wage increases for its 120,000 members in the cotton-rayon industry when the present contracts expire in September. The Ford Motor Co. also decided the time had come for plain talking. It turned down the U.A.W.'s wage and pension demands and proposed freezing wages for 18 months. Said Ford's Bargainer John S. Bugas: "It would be utter folly to take any action which would increase...
Since Robert Frost is only 74 and sound as a hickory ax handle, this book is not likely to be his last. It does, however, contain his lifework up to the present, including several poems not printed in book form. And though this is not the sense intended, the title is correct about the poems: almost every one of them is complete as a work of art. Moreover, Frost is a complete poet, one of the few who ever stuck it out as such in a tough country for poets. Frost's reputation has been secure for 35 years...