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Rachelle Resnick, 27, a San Francisco school-bus driver, counts herself fortunate to have bought?with much help from her father?a two-bedroom house that she candidly describes as "a little nothing." It cost $48,500, and she will have to spend $5,000 or so to repair termite damage. But had she waited, it almost surely would have gone higher. The house sold in June 1976 for $28,000, and has since been resold four times by four separate speculators, none of whom lived...
...course some of New York's problems are unique. Nowhere else in the U.S. is power failure likely to last as long as 25 hours; New York has more underground cable than any other system-80,837 miles of it-and it obviously requires more time to repair than do surface lines. And because each section of Manhattan's power grid sucks as much power as a small city, the restoration of power in each neighborhood had to proceed slowly and carefully to avoid sudden overloads on the system. Earlier this month, when fire destroyed an electric cable...
...breaking both legs. Instead of having them amputated, as physicians recommended, he tried to save them by operation after operation. The results were never fully satisfactory, and in 1958 he lost his right leg. Only toward the very end of his life, with Linda dead and his health beyond repair, did he seem to despair, giving in more and more to pills and alcohol. Death, in 1964, was probably welcomed...
Carter's strained relationship with the Jewish community is not beyond repair. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: "There is apprehension. But there is no confrontation yet. In fact, there is gratitude and satisfaction with some aspects of Administration policy." Jewish leaders applaud Carter's strong stand on Soviet dissidents, on free emigration from Russia, on the antiboycott legislation. Carter has also increased economic aid to Israel by $400 million. Growing doubts have apparently not caused Jewish leaders to tighten their purse strings. Tickets are selling briskly...
Possibly, as Ingelfinger suggests, a public trial supervised by a collaboration of doctors and laymen might do more to bury Laetrile than all the official debunking. It would perhaps help repair the badly strained bond between medicine and the American people. Yet a too easy acquiescence by the FDA could, like any strong medication, produce unwanted and even dangerous side effects. By letting individuals use Laetrile, regardless of its value, the Government would be abrogating its traditional responsibilities to protect the national wellbeing. It could also fan the already widespread public suspicion of contemporary medicine and indeed of scientific expertise...