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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1980
Page
15
The writer criticizes modern medicine for relying on tests over physical exams. He notes doctors increasingly order tests regardless of the complaint and marvels at lab capabilities that reveal more about a person than traditional methods.
A letter recounts multiple lab mixups and misreads in Washington area hospitals. The author argues tests are the core of diagnosis and urges shifting doctors into labs and bringing lab techs into offices for better accuracy.
Oliver Bilhorn, a 72 year old resident of a neglected Chicago neighborhood, rings the old church bell at noon each day. He tolls 52 chimes for the 52 American hostages then held in Iran, continuing daily since President Carter urged bells as a tribute. The forgotten church remains a quiet symbol as others forget.
In Redditch, Bill Baker aged 76 marries Edna Harvey, his granddaughter's mother in law, triggering a tangle of relations where Lynn, 28, finds herself both aunt and wife to various relatives. The piece notes the upside down kinship as Baker jokes about endless combinations. Also dated reference to Gerald Ford signing a 2.3 billion loan guarantee for New York City in 1975.
On this date in 1898 Spain signed a treaty that ended the Spanish American War. The accord transferred Guam Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States, reshaping colonial holdings and regional power.
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