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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the National Association of Chiropodists changed its name to American Podiatry Association, hoped that victims of corns, calluses and ingrown toenails would begin calling the nation's 8,000 foot doctors "podiatrists" (foot healers). To most patients the new name, like the old symptom, would be a pain in the foot...
...usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them announced: "Springfield's police will begin an inch-by-inch search of the murder scene at 2 p.m. tomorrow, looking for the murder weapon...
...tests will be given twice during 1958--in May and in October--but candidates taking the earlier test will be able to furnish scores to institutions in the early fall, when many medical schools begin selection of their next entering class...
...scientists delve into the most abstruse and uncharted fields with freedom, aware that in an age of rapidly changing technology the most basic research may prove valuable-perhaps even indispensable-for some new project. But Pace realizes that profits cannot be put off forever. Says he: "When our scientists begin to see a light, the planning people must show them how that idea can be put to use in the corporation. You must always tie research and planning together...
Fresh Start. In Lyon, France, Railroad Employee Roger Clavey-Rolles, 35, charged with breaking into a woman passenger's sleeping compartment on the Narbonne-Paris Express, explained to police: "I wanted to begin the year in good company...