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Cancer of the cervix is one of the commonest forms of malignant disease. It is also one of the most certainly cur able, provided it is detected early. Thanks to the famed "Pap smear" test for early detection, developed by Cornell University's late Dr. George N. Papanicolaou, the lives of an estimated 15,000 women are now being saved each year in the U.S. But gynecologists believe that almost as many women who develop cervical cancer each year will eventually die of it, and needlessly - because it is not being detected soon enough...
...heating oil, for example, cannot be predicted until its chemical components are completely determined. Unlike American heating oils, this oil is of an inferior grade; it is black, thick, and totally unrefined. Restorers have had considerable experience with the oils from lipstick which tourists often use to smear their initials on the major monuments. Lipstick oils, they have found, sink into the porous surface of the stone and are very difficult to remove. But no one has had any experience with the effect of this crude heating oil on paper, panels, canvas, or stone...
...psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding the cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never develop a foolproof psychiatric Geiger counter or a cerebral "Pap smear" for spotting every psychotic in advance, there is no doubt that far more can be done within the resources of the Great Society to pare the danger of sudden, irrational murder...
...provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police. His army and his oilfields are controlled by the British, but the British legate is a bumfembedded chargé, and his aides are tired old faggots and redbrick rejects. The Russians infiltrate, the colonels plot, the inevitable coup transpires in a scarlet smear of violence. The story falters in its final pages, but Mossman never relents his graceful ridicule ("The Russian delegation in their square-rigged tunics and striped trousers arrived at the palace, looking like a band that has lost its instruments"). Nor does he abate his unseemly aptitude for discovering bacteria...
Broadway Director Mike Nichols, in his first movie job, can claim a sizable victory simply for the performance he has wrung from Elizabeth Taylor. Looking fat and fortyish under a smear of makeup, with her voice pitched well below the belt, Liz as Martha is loud, sexy, vulgar, pungent, and yet achieves moments of astonishing tenderness. Only during sustained eruptions does she lapse into monotony, or look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway...