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...Sim One has a heart beat, pulse and blood pressure. His chest moves as if it were breathing, his eyes dilate, his muscles twitch, his mouth opens and closes. Sim (for simulator) One is a fiber-glass-and-steel robot, designed to play the part of a patient for anesthesiologists in training at Los Angeles County General Hospital...
...answer, Statistician E. Cuyler Ham mond of the American Cancer Society reported last week, is devastatingly sim ple: for all their freedom, modern wom en do not smoke as much as men. On the average, they do not start smoking as young, do not inhale as deeply, and have not smoked for as many years. Hammond's statistics also show, however, that the closer women's smoking practices approach men's, the closer are their disease and death rates...
...relations with her former colonies. Between 1503 and 1660 Spanish galleons shipped about $1 billion worth of gold and silver bullion from the New World, while conquistadors slaughtered or enslaved thousands of Indians. Spain's comeuppance was just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain...
...member, according to Sims, has ever been charged with a felony; this record is a credit to the discipline of the organization, and the discipline of the organization is a credit to Sims. He discourages in private the bellicose attitude that he projects in public. His Deacons are merely a deterrent force to scare off racists who are hunting for trouble. Sim's aim is simply to keep the Klan out of Negro neighborhoods, and in this he succeeds. He has created a Cold War atmosphere in Bogalusa. No gunfights, no midnight raids, only sitting and waiting...
...Sims made a short speech before throwing the floor open to questions. "The only thing that a Southern white man respects is another man like him who has a gun and is ready to fight and die." Sim said, explaining why he formed the Deacons last February. The audience took it from there, as Sims proceeded to debunk some myths and perpetuate others about the Negro defense organization...