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...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...Vancouver, where 150 vets had moved into the old Vancouver Hotel last January, 13 squatter families were in their second week at Little Mountain Army barracks. They petitioned Ottawa "to quit quack-quack-quacking on housing . . . start building decent low-cost housing...
Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going...
...policeman) sailed into the Russian delegates' interminable speeches and innumerable objections which he called "blasted old rot." "Up to now," he said, "we have got no chairman. We are just a mob. I want to see something done in my lifetime. . . I'm sick of listening to quack, quack, quack, hour after hour. . . Let's get on to work. That's what the people expect...
...from Atoms? Radioactive study is but one of 19 fields which the American Cancer Society is exploring. Down through the years, a defensive battle has been fought with weapons both good & bad: the knife, X ray, radium bullets, chemotherapy, heat, cold ("frozen sleep"), drugs, diet, prayer, many a quack salve and medicine. Treatment today, as it has been since the time Hippocrates used a soldering iron against tumors, is based largely on one principle: destruction or removal of diseased tissue. Not until last year was a major campaign against cancer instituted, with top scientists, doctors and businessmen united...