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This year the conference was held in the relaxed atmosphere of a resort near Acapulco, Mexico. Among the Government officials attending were George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Counsellor to the President; Charles Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Preston Martin, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; and Allan Oakley Hunter, president of the Federal National Mortgage Association. They were joined by 80 leaders from every sector of the housing industry. That is quite an increase since the first meeting at Pebble Beach, Calif., when the presidents of the National Association of Home...
Broom Wielding. In these and numerous other races this year, the outcome may hinge on quixotic turns. In Texas, bumbling incumbent Democrat Preston Smith was conducting a listless campaign until a broom-wielding student approached him on a speakers' platform at the University of Houston. In Massachusetts, Democrat Kevin White aroused the interest of the electorate not at all until he went into the hospital with a perforated stomach ulcer. Smith is the favorite in Texas, and White's physical and political health are both reported improving...
...treats only a handful of syphilis cases annually. "With gonorrhea, and a 30,000 patient population, the rate is very low but not infinitesimal," said Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director of UHS. "We get only 50 to 60 cases a year, in spite of what seems to be going on in the population at large...
Unjustified Risk. Many doctors assume that circumcision prevents cancer of the penis. But Preston notes that penile tumors occur in circumcised as well as uncircumcised men. Nor does circumcision appear to be a major factor in preventing cancer of the cervix in women. Men of India's Parsi group are not circumcised; Jewish men are. Yet cervical cancer is rare among the wives of both groups. It is more frequent, however, in lower-class Moslem women, whose husbands, though circumcised, maintain low standards of personal hygiene...
...Preston readily agrees with the argument that an uncircumcised penis is more difficult to keep clean than one from which the foreskin has been removed. But this, he feels, does not justify the risks of an operation that he considers little better than mutilation. "If a child can be taught to tie his shoes or brush his teeth or wash behind his ears," says Preston, "he can also be taught to wash beneath his foreskin...