Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support his choice of Andreé Morice, a "tough-line" man on Algeria, as Minister of Defense. With a sigh President Coty folds his napkin. Nothing for it but to send out telegrams canceling the Assembly meeting-something that has never before occurred under the Fourth Republic-and to call on someone else to try and form a government...
First there is balding ex-Education Minister Reneé Billèeres, saying, "Sooner another than me." Then comes 36-year-old Maurice Faure ("I am too young"), then cod-eyed Senator Jean Berthoin, conscious of the desperation that led Coty for the first time to call on a Senator. Berthoin insists: "It must be a Deputy." Finally, half an hour before midnight, Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin, a thin, silvery and incisive Alsatian reluctantly agrees to try and become Premier of France...
...weekends, there is no doctor at the Radcliffe Health Center. Cases are referred to Stillman. The one doctor on duty there is not permitted to leave. There is, it is true, a doctor on call, as well: but when we called recently that doctor was "thirty minutes out of town;" and in an emergency, he would evidently be useless...
...Radcliffe dormitory, graduate or undergraduate, has a resident doctor. It is our firm belief that a doctor should be on call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present...
...cannot help but feel that all this might easily have been averted. A little willingness to sacrifice precedent and a small investment in a phone call to Ithaca early Wednesday morning might well have done the trick. One dollar might have saved a thousand...