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...killer among the various kinds of cancer is losing its punch. Overall, between 1930 and 1959, the death rate per 100,000 from stomach cancer has dropped from 25.4 to 9.8, which multiplies out as 20,000 deaths in 1959. This drop, writes Buffalo's Dr. George E. Moore in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, "is adequate proof that gastric cancer is not inevitable." But the factors in the victim's way of life that might cause the disease remain to be identified...
...Stomach cancer, which is often undetected until it is far advanced and likely to prove fatal, shows puzzling variations in frequency. The poor, says Dr. Moore, are more likely to get it than the rich. This suggests that the recent decrease reflects an improvement in the diets of the poor. At Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, ethnic groups with high rates of stomach cancer have only one dietary peculiarity in common: they eat a lot of cabbage. Dr. Moore comments: "Fortunately, the consumption of cabbage has been decreasing for several decades...
They gave me the torture called 'del ahogadito' -- the little drowning. They make you strip off every stitch of clothing down to your undershorts, then they distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making...
...near Philippeville rounded up 40 uniformed men wearing S.A.O. armbands; they called themselves the "Bonaparte Commando." The entire group was captured without a shot being fired, and their sheepish surrender strengthened those Gaullists who have maintained that the S.A.O. detachments, though capable of bombings and isolated assassinations, have no stomach for a showdown fight...
...standard: 130-140 ft.) to reach top speed. He gets so much lift that he needs only a cut-down, 14-ft. 11-in. pole to propel his body across a 16-ft.-high bar. Aloft he is unusually graceful, clearing the crossbar with his feet tucked closely together, stomach sucked in, arms flung high over his head. Uelses never rests between vaults. He paces back and forth, stares up at the crossbar, tidies up the runway with a broom. "Mental attitude is the main thing," he says. "You can't let the bar beat you; you have...