Stronger grip on life thanks to modern drugs
Article highlights how modern medicine cuts illness risk and costs from birth onward. It credits doctors and drug researchers for preventing diseases like pneumonia meningitis rheumatic fever and scarlet fever through affordable treatments. Also notes fungi attracted to skin.
Computers and Whooping Cranes
The piece argues computers may outpace humans and stresses controlling their influence. It notes risks from linked machines producing unpredictable secondary effects and urges keeping machines from political power, likening safeguards to refuges for condors and whooping cranes.
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Kepler
Norbert Wiener
John Wilkinson
Center For the Study of
Wilkinson
American Library Association
St. Louis
Mr. Wilkinson
Mary Hill and Charlie Bridge Crew Romance
Charlie recovers from a fall on a bridge project as Mary Hill the Elite Lunch owner reveals she loves him. He plans a life beyond danger while Mary admits she will marry him if he stops climbing. The tale follows hospital stays, river work, and a promising future together.
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Ash
Dave
Mary
Mary Hill
Jack
Sask
Benz
Clem
Clem Sask
Picture House
August Memories and the Great War Echoes
The piece contrasts a carefree August 1964 with veterans aged seventy plus who recall 1914 and the outbreak of World War I. It reflects on memory, endurance, and the scars of trench warfare, urging younger generations to listen with respect to those who endured the 1914 18 conflict.
Memorial Honors Churchill at Fulton Campus
Former President Truman turned the first spadeful of earth at Westminister College Fulton Missouri for a memorial chapel honoring Sir Winston Churchill. The project rebuilds a three century old London church gutted in the 1941 blitz and will include a Churchill library and memorabilia museum. Parts of the church will be shipped to Fulton for the memorial and the college site was chosen because Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain speech there on March 5 1946.
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Winston Churchill
Winston
Winnie
LaFayette
Truman
Westminister College
Fulton
London
Churchill
Sir Winston
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