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...that bluntly-even though it's so. Actually, there are two separate farm problems, which require separate solutions, and some of the confusion about farm policy arises from failure to distinguish between them. There is the problem of marginal farmers, most of them in the South, who barely scratch a living from the soil; their difficulty is not overproduction but underproduction. The marginal farmer lacks the capital, land, energy, initiative, skill, or whatever else is required to earn a U.S.-style livelihood in agriculture in competition with commercial farmers. The other problem, of course, is overproduction. The Kennedy Administration...
Never Again. Perhaps nobody is. In the very first round of golf that Jack Nicklaus ever shot, at ten. he scored a 51 for nine holes-and he has never done that poorly since. Recalls his father, a Columbus, Ohio, chain druggist and a onetime scratch handicapper on the golf course: "By the time Jack was twelve, I couldn't handle him any more. I remember one day I hit as good a drive as I could, maybe 260 yds. I told Jack, 'If you outhit that one, I'll buy you a Cadillac convertible...
Only recently have doctors recognized cat-scratch disease to account for the previously unexplained aches and fevers that occasionally afflict cat fanciers. And there is still plenty for doctors to learn about the oddly varied and sometimes serious forms that the disease can take, says the A.M.A. Journal. Latest information: it can be caught by a person who may not even have been scratched...
...evidence was supplied by Dr. John N. Snyder of Catonsville, Md., who treated five cases in a single family. First victim was a thoroughly scratched ten-year-old boy, who went to the doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched...
Neither Dr. Snyder nor anyone else has yet identified the actual cause of cat-scratch fever, but it is believed to be an unusually large virus-the only kind that can be effectively treated with antibiotics...