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Thanks to anti-cancer propaganda, the public is becoming aware of the importance of prompt examination (the proportion of cancer patients who now delay going to a doctor-32%-is much smaller than surveys showed nine years ago). But doctors seem to be even less alert. The Memorial Hospital experts conclude: "The patient is seeking help earlier but the physician does not appear to be taking advantage of the opportunity...
...have 30,000 well-armed partisans at our disposal, and if the Government doesn't give us prompt proof of its democratic spirit, we shall have to fight, because only by fighting can we obtain any positive results...
...Guinea Pig. Henry Ford II called the proposal "a disastrous precedent for scuttling . . . the law." He would not become "a guinea pig . . . for all industry." Ford's negotiators would agree to setting up an impartial umpire who would determine whether the union had made "prompt and honest" efforts to prevent illegal walkouts; Ford would not sue if the umpire said they had made the efforts. No, said U.A.W. to that...
Students last night appeared satisfied with the prompt action taken by the Student Council and Dean Bender to remedy the dust problem and provide other rooms...
...triumph. For five months he had bottled up in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee Harry Truman's nomination of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle as U.S. representative on the U.N.'s Social and Economic Council. Biddle finally requested that his name be withdrawn. The President's prompt second choice: Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who had Vandenberg's warm backing...