Five Transit Objections Answered for Los Angeles Plan
Editor notes reprinted from the County Voter outline five common objections to a rapid transit system for Los Angeles, with direct answers. Points cover usage, broad benefits, fixed rail versus buses, tech limits, and funding via a 1 percent sales tax, plus a Q&A on Basenjis and Biela's comet.
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League of Women Voters
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
Vast Domain of Blood and Other Pieces in One Review
A Tucson column reviews Don Schellie’s Vast Domain of Blood foreworded by Barry Goldwater. The book recounts the Camp Grant massacre of 1871 and the white man’s shameful history with Apaches, detailing the humane Arizona post commander’s failed peace plan and resulting tragedy.
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Don Schellie
Barry Goldwater
Camp Grant
Arizona
Tucson
New drug shows promise against advanced prostate cancer
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine report cyproterone acetate induced remissions lasting 5 to 14 months in 9 of 11 patients with prostate cancer. Tumor shrinkage, pain relief, weight gain, and a bone healing sign were observed, with six remissions ongoing. No major side effects noted. detailed in Surgery Gynecology Obstetrics. A second item notes a steel vertebral prosthesis replacement in a 60 year old patient at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Canada.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York City
Royal Jubilee Hospital
Victoria
B.C
Canada
Fouad A. Hamdi
Journal of the American Medical Association
Reds Come Back Tough In Indonesia
Washington dispatch notes a lesson from Indonesia where the Communist party was wiped out three years ago suggesting similar expectations back in South Vietnam. The analysis cautions against assuming victory solely by defeating invading forces and crushing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese political structure.
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Washington
NEA
South Vietnam
Indonesia
Communist Party
People’s Defense School
Java
U.S
Dominican Republic
Congo
Thailand
Vietnam
United States
A Little Word Quiz Seeks Reader Challenge Again
The columnist revives a word quiz that proved popular last spring in a slightly tougher format. Readers who must look up the answers to learn gain the intended educational effect. The piece notes the quiz’s return to the column.
Word Puzzle Quiz from Sydney Harris
A set of vocabulary questions asks for terms matching clues such as Don Quixote style fighting windmills, chance laded adjectives, drumroll roliing sounds, and evasive self referential phrases. It covers self education neologisms, late life schooling, demonyms, wrongful dispossession terms, flu disease shifts, pseudo vowels, abet missing letters, and other classic word answers.
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