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Everywhere the Chinese appeared there was a horde of paparazzi-like newsmen. Reporters peered over the delegates' shoulders as they breakfasted on omelets and lunched on breast of chicken. They even checked the luncheon tips with waitresses (a precise 15%). After paying their first breakfast tab with a $100 bill, the Chinese began signing for everything. Through it all, the delegates managed resigned smiles and noncommittal answers. One mission member, noting the crowd of newsmen, said to TIME'S Mandarin-speaking David Aikman: "You can't avoid them...
...Fatalities among women have also declined dramatically, largely because of earlier detection of uterine cancer, which is almost always curable if treated promptly. In 1940, uterine cancer caused the death of 27.9 out of every 100,000 women. By 1968, the figure had fallen to 10.6. Breast cancer, however, remains a constant threat...
...Blacks are proportionately more vulnerable than whites. Black men are 65% more likely to suffer from cancer of the prostate than whites, 250% more susceptible to cancer of the esophagus. Black women are 25% less likely to develop cancers of the breast or uterus than whites, but 115% more likely to get cancer of the cervix...
...looks on Unitarianism as rather a nice solution to any questions of Jewishness. The lawyer is appointed to rid the community of these symbols of religious exclusivity and suffering. But the lawyer undergoes a transformation of identity and winds up wearing the D.P.'s clothing, and beating his breast in ritual anguish. Michael Tolan undergoes this probe of the tribal subconscious with moving sensitivity...
...nowadays the ghetto can be as chic as Fifth Avenue. In their self-indulgent militancy, black playwrights of Van Peebles' frenzied stamp like to think that they are raising welts on The Man's conscience. Actually, they are catering to a masochistic mea culpa claque and assorted liberal breast beaters...