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During long service in Singapore, which has many more doctors and vastly better medical facilities than most Eastern countries (except Japan), Dr. Muir found enough statistics to shatter the myth of a cancer-free Utopia in the Orient. At first glance the island's cancer death rate appears to be about one-third that of the U.S.: 52 per 100,000 every year, as against 150. But Singapore's population is loaded top-heavily in the lowest age brackets: 33% under ten years old, as against 22% in the U.S. and 16% in England. Only 20% of Singapore...
Borrow by Night. Bankers' hours are gradually becoming customers' hours; many banks now stay open as late as 6 p.m. on weekdays, and even open their doors on weekends. This week San Francisco's Golden Gate National Bank will shatter tradition by opening a downtown branch that will do business from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Particularly for people who work at night and cannot get to the bank without disturbing daytime sleep, Manhattan's First National City Bank is pushing a "Dial-a-Loan" service, in which...
...cunning and patience. As Jacob Burckhardt, the great historian of the Renaissance, put it: "Without him the world would seem to us incomplete . . . He appears complete in every situation, but every situation at once seems to cramp him. He does not merely fill it. He may shatter it . . . He beholds the true situation and the means at his command . . . He knows what can be the foundations of his future power. Confronted with parliaments, senates, assemblies, press, public opinion, he knows at any moment how far they are real or only imaginary, and makes frank use of them . . . He will curb...
...Franco-German preponderance in the Common Market, like the right of blackball, is written into the Treaty of Rome--Paris and Bonn between them dispose of 8 of the 17 votes in the Council of Ministers, and so on. Kennedy may regret this, but his recent tactics threaten to shatter the entire structure of Europen unity in the process of remedying features to which he objects...
...Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...