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Every year, no less than 16,000 U.S. women, most of them comparatively young, die of cancer of the cervix. Doctors have long known that the key to controlling cancer is prompt diagnosis, and they have convinced a large section of the public that if a woman has any suspicious symptoms she should go at once to her doctor for examination. But that is not enough, the A.M.A. Journal warned last week: if the needlessly early deaths from cervical cancers are to be avoided, women who have no apparent symptoms of the disease must also take a cancer test...
...vaginal smear test as a matter of course to nearly all his new women patients for more than five years. Eleven out of 704 showed positive, and one of these proved false. Of the ten who had cancer, seven had the disease in such an early stage that prompt treatment gave them a 90% (or better) chance of surviving five years, and a 65% chance of living ten years. In ordinary practice, most cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed so late that only two victims out of five are in time to get the full benefits of surgery or other...
...Democrats' delight at Nixon's discomfiture was prompt and predictable. Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green called on Nixon to name his contributors and tell how the money was spent. When Nixon did so, Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman hinted darkly that Nixon's situation called for a congressional investigation. Candidate Adlai Stevenson said: "Condemnation without all the evidence, a practice all too familiar to us, would be wrong...
...This article appeared on page 18 of the June 23 edition of TIME. At that moment there seemed to be no urgent reason for me to protest about the article, because the damage had been done. However, I have been at a loss to understand the motive that would prompt the editors of TIME to go so far afield in their misrepresentation of my political record...
...Prompt Delivery. The drought parched the South from the brown grazing lands of Texas eastward through Dixie's corn, tobacco and (less seriously) cotton. It seared the Southeast's new livestock pasturage. It left scattered scars in the Midwest, and on wide areas of New England...