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...Hospital in Windsor, Ont. has been keeping careful follow-up records on all patients treated for cancer. Main conclusion, as reported by Dr. Norman A. McCormick in the current Canadian Medical Association Journal: "Ample proof that this disease can be cured." Because five symptom-free years are the medical yardstick for cure, the study stops after 1947. Items...
Furthermore, critics point out, the statistical yardstick may be technically accurate but misleading: if 50% of U.S. husbands commit adultery at some time in their lives, this does not mean that 50% of them are habitual adulterers - many may slip only once, or only during a long absence from home (e.g., on military service overseas...
Holding up their partisan yardstick, the Democrats measured off the record of the 83rd Congress last week and ruled it a Republican fiasco. In a radio report to the nation last week, Dwight Eisenhower measured the 83rd's first session against the broad aims and purposes of his Administration and ruled it a good beginning -"I repeat-only a little more than a beginning...
...Senate eliminated from the bill several important reforms proposed by the Administration (e.g., setting up a new yardstick for establishing the value of imported articles). But the Senate promised to consider these provisions again in the next session. Though the bill, as finally passed, was something less than the sweeping reform of U.S. customs laws importers wanted, it was a good start...
...Registrars Office should not putter around, paternalistically trying to help students over the academic hump by spacing examinations with a yardstick. It should, however, and has tried conscientiously in the past, to eliminate the worst inconveniences from the schedule. Simple majority rule should be the standard: classes with the greatest number of students should have at least one day of breathing space between them. Such a change this year might irretrievably snafu the IBM machines. But in the future the bulk of the College should have to stumble from exam to exam without a break...