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Disillusioning Revelations. Baltimoreans have mixed feelings about the Block's gradual demise. City Council President William D. Schaefer has supported its continuance. But Police Commissioner Donald Pomerleau claims to have dissuaded Schaefer. "I told him," says Pomerleau, "that there is the most base, gross conduct over there and there is no place for the Block anywhere in the city of Baltimore." Investigations of organized crime in the city have uncovered a $10 million-a-year numbers empire operating out of the Block and linked several club owners to nationwide betting syndicates. These revelations have disillusioned many Baltimoreans...
FINALLY, the Jensenites might make their most important contribution if they could somehow join with Earl Schaefer of the National Institutes of Health and others at the Universities of Florida, Western Michigan, etc., who are fastening on early infant stimulation and teaching as the key to agility on standardized tests. (The problem of course may be in getting the Schaeferites to join with the Jensenites given the Klan types who have embraced the latter as their own.) Schaefer has already published some fine results of efforts with black children...
...GOITER, a grossly enlarged thyroid gland caused by iodine deficiency. The condition was thought to have been eliminated during the Depression by persuading people to use iodized salt in their food. Now it has become endemic again, said Schaefer, affecting 5% of those studied-even though enough iodine to prevent goiter costs less than ½ per person per year...
...been required to have vitamin D additions, until last fall milk supplied in domestic welfare programs needed no such supplements. ¶ KWASHIORKOR, a drastic protein deficiency that has killed untold thousands of children in Biafra and scarred others with the hideous trademarks of hunger-large eyes and bloated bellies. Schaefer found seven U.S. cases. ¶ NIGHT BLINDNESS, a retinal malfunction caused by lack of vitamin A. Nearly a third of the children six or under suffered from the disease, while total blindness was considered a high risk for 13% of the entire sampling...
...Schaefer hopes eventually to survey a total of ten states, including California, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington and West Virginia. Mississippi, the poorest state, was not surveyed because, Schaefer indicated, Mississippian Jamie Whitten, chairman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Committee, blocked the study...