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Last week Oxford-and the U.S.-got the worrisome news. The investigators had tested 3,516 men, women & children. Two percent of the people of Oxford had diabetes. Of these, nearly half (30 people) had no idea that they were diabetics. A majority were in comparatively late stages of the disease, with acute but unrecognized symptoms (cramps in the arms & legs, loss of weight, intense itching, fatigue, overeating, unusual thirst...
...somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This is the political war and it cannot stop until Russia or democracy wins...
Reduced liquor consumption could also be foreseen in Luckman's declaration that the distilled spirits industry will be asked to shut down on the use of grain for 60 days in addition to the 50 percent curtailment already promised by 60 percent of the industry...
Miss Witt commented that the clearing up of the summer's late-check difficulties should also serve to speed up fall subsistence. She said that when the Vets Office survey on how many students were behind in checks this summer showed between 25 and 35 percent, the information had been relayed to the VA's New England branch of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Section...
...issues big and little that leadership emerges and alignments take shape. At Madison the political jockeying occured quite conspicuously: at virulent odds were the Catholic colleges, representing some 35 percent of the votes, and the Communist-Party-led delegates (from duly-invited front organizations and campuses where those influence elections), representing perhaps 9 percent of the votes. In between stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted...