Word: ama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salk, Sabin, and other authorities and organizations had disagreed on the relative merits of the vaccines, but the dispute remained subdued until the AMA House of Delegates state, in March, 1961, that "the persistence of immunity induced by the oral [Sabin] vaccine may be of much longer duration than is the case with Salk vaccine and, in fact, the persistence of immunity may conceivably approach that induced by natural infection in type, degree, and duration." And while the AMA urged wider use of Salk injections until Sabin was licensed, it noted that the Sabin protects against both paralytic...
...Monday's editorial, "Live Modern," your excellent comments on smoking and lung cancer were marred by an ill-considered and overly-broad indictment of the AMA. You said that it seemed unlikely that the AMA would "take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives." Even though I am one of the most outspoken critics in my class at the medical school of the AMA's persistent and extreme economic short-sightedness, I can not let such a sweeping statement pass unchallenged. The most ardent liberal in the medical profession...
...business" of newspapering. The trouble is that in this country business is too clean a word: nowhere else would an organization of doctors lobby as shamelessly and as effectively as any industry in behalf of the economic interests of medicine as a business. Journalism, along with the AMA, has forgotten the social responsibilities of being a profession...
Actor Cassel, 27, is easily the funniest Frenchman seen on screen since Jacques (Mr. Hulot's Holiday] Tati; and The Love Game, the first New Wave comedy released in the U.S., is a happy, bawdy but somehow innocent and always violently spontaneous little pa ama party. "What you do," the heroine informs the hero thoughtfully, "you do well. But-not seriously." Morbleu! he wonders. What more does the girl want? "A baby." The hero pales at the thought of marriage and fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged...