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...first statistical studies of the re lationship between smoking and lung cancer had an understandable impact: there are 65 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. with an understandable in terest in their own health. But that twelve-year-old beginning left room for argument; even though the research continued, there were a few reputable medical men who were convinced that the case against cigarettes had not been proved. Late in 1959 the American Cancer Society enrolled 1,078,000 American volunteers in a project designed to produce enough statistics to convince anyone. Last week at the American Medical Association...
Rogers, who vehemently opposes the Cornell method of learning languages (i.e. machines, separation from culture), says that "We must reward the younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...
Jacob S. Coxey, "General" of the famed tatterdemalion army of unemployed that marched from Ohio on Washington in 1894, still full of fight at 91, gave a Chicago isolationist gathering something to wrestle with: "The Government takes 20% out of your salary to pay you in terest on the 10% you have deducted from your salary to buy bonds. . . . Then they have to tax the people so the Government can pay interest to the banks, so the banks will support Government bonds upon which money is issued...
...working agreement," he declared, "which will be effective so long as these two powers find it to their in- terest to maintain it." He doubted if it would be any real interest of Hitler to support the Mediterranean interests of Mussolini. "If the British could bring themselves to return some of the conquered colonies to Germany," Langer feels that the Rome-Berlin axis would "probably crack...
...Bank & Trust Co. of Oswego, with $5,700,000 in deposits. The directors were Niagara Hudson's Floyd Leslie Carlisle and Henry Edmund Machold, vice president of F. L. Carlisle & Co., both of whom had been directors of the Oswego bank. Their election strengthens the community of in- terest between the $784,000,000 Niagara Hudson power system and the $586,000,000 banking group...