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Almost 60,000 American men will develop cancer of the prostate this year, and more than 20.000 will die of the disease. At least half of those deaths might have been avoided had the cancer been diagnosed sooner. In its earliest stages, it can usually be arrested by prompt and aggressive surgery or radiation, or both. The catch is that early detection has so far proved difficult, not only because men too often avoid rectal examination by the physician's gloved finger, but because available blood tests turn up evidence of malignancy in only more advanced cases...
...went on the basketball team's trips to Arizona and Detroit over Christmas Vacation to help learn the new system sooner and immediately began contributing to the team. In Detroit, he scored 16 points against Long Island, and last weekend he exploded for 19 points against Penn...
...sooner or later it comes down to fate...
...PROBLEMS of Brooklyn are the problems of all the older cities in this nation, all the northeastern industrial cities. Brooklyn's problems have come to a head sooner, and involve more people than those of other cities, so they're harder to cope with. Even if the borough, and New York City itself, had the most capable, honest and dedicated leaders, it would probably founder helpless before such massive social forces. And Brooklyn doesn't have such selfless and creative leadership: it is a machine city, and the Democratic organization hands out political plums for services rendered...
...technocrats. Such a nonpolitical Cabinet might be able to fashion an economic salvation plan that the parties would have to accept if a strong case was made that the future of the country was at stake. In any case, Soares is confident that he will be back in power sooner or later. "Within a few weeks or months, when it is seen that another solution does not work," he said last week, "the Socialists will be called upon again...