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...progress and problems. Chief among them was Dr. Charles S. Cameron, 47, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, whose new 268-page book for laymen (The Truth About Cancer; Prentice-Hall; $4.95) outlines the symptoms and the treatment of cancer. The book's main point: prompt medical checkups at the first sign of such cancer signals as bleeding, unusual growths can easily double the current U.S. cure rate of 25% in 500,000 new cases a year...
...party after the purges. A minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, she was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind," or a local party committee "does not exercise influence on the march towards the fulfillment of the thematical plan of scientific research." She told...
...great leaders sit idly by and preach a gospel of gradualism while the South is torn by violence," Howard said. It was the federal government's refusal to enforce desegregation that allowed violence to start at the University of Alabama, he asserted, "and unless prompt action is taken, such violence will spread...
Slowly, too slowly to win any credit for good will, the British have begun beating a retreat. Archbishop Makarios made known that he would be happy to settle for an unconditional British pledge of self-determination and prompt steps toward arranging it; enosis, if that is the will of the people, would come later. After much gulping and shooting of cuffs, Sir Anthony Eden's government took back Henry Hop-kinson's never, and three weeks ago accepted Cyprus' right to self-determination - but still would not say when. The U.S., ally and friend of all three...
...Republicans claim credit for the United Nations? Can the Republicans claim credit for the prevention of a third world war by the decisive and prompt action taken in Korea? Can the Republicans claim credit for the Marshall Plan, for the Mutual Security Program, and for the strong alliance which has developed with the democracies of the West? Can the Republicans take credit for the establishment of Israel as a bulwark for freedom in the Middle East? Or can they claim that they are responsible for checking the spread of Communism in Europe...