A check for $30,000 was presented last week by Jan Peerce and his wife, Alice, to Kalman J. Mann, head of the Hadassah. Medical Organization, for research on diabetes Research by the HMO has centered on differences in the incidence of the disease among Yemenite immigrants compared with Asheknazi Jews. The money was raised by the Peerces and by Stanley Slotkin and Lloyd Shapoff, both of Los Angeles.
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