Word: aycocks
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...good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"-they had beaten up a Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known they would...
...Aycock remarked that the stampede in England for eyeglasses during the first weeks of state medicine there demonstrated the need for a system to get glasses for those who need them...
...plan for federal health insurance will be opposed by the American Association of Medicine, the two professors said. The AMA's chief concern is that the federal government will be unable to administer state medicine properly. This charge is unwarranted, said Aycock, since the government has succeeded in administering the public health program efficiently thus...
...Aycock then drew a parallel between compulsory health insurance and compulsory education. "A long time ago," he said, "society decided that education was good and that everyone, whether or not he could afford it or had the sense to get it, should get education. The need for health care is similarly desirable--what is the sense of educating a boy if he dies...
...highly specialized character of modern medicine makes it impossible for a general practicioner to administer complete care and emphasizes the necessity for some sort of cooperative medicine, Aycock said...