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...Molybdenum Co. has equipped the inaccessible Rockies settlement of Climax (where it operates the country's largest underground mine) with ski tows, a $31,700 youth center, a $106,000 recreation hall with bowling alleys, library, target range and gymnasium, a $128,000 skating rink and a TV booster to bring in programs from distant stations. Crown Zellerbach Corp., which runs three lumber company towns in Washington and Oregon, concentrates on youth activities, allots timberland tracts to Boy Scout troops, awards college scholarships to company town children...
John DeTar's two-fisted approach has helped make him the family doctor's leading booster and a national figure in U.S. medicine. When he arrived in Milan (pop. 3,900) just out of internship at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he planned to return soon to the city and specialize in the growing field of pediatrics. But DeTar and his family (two sons, two daughters) found Milan pleasant and friendly, decided to stay...
Different as their problems are, most G.P.s would agree with Booster DeTar's, analysis of their task: "The family doctor is the captain of the medical team. He should make the diagnosis and care for the patient to the limit of his ability. He should bring in a specialist when needed. Then, with the help of the specialist, he should manage the overall care...
...worked hard to boost overseas loans. Back in the early days of the Administration Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who had to lend the bank its funds, was skeptical, wanted to cut down. But after studying the bank's consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil, $3,300,000 to Chile for more steel, $14 million...
...travel at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. The missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left) as the missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts in its second power supply (top right) and races on to meet the target aircraft...