Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
This week Adolfo Orive de Alba, President Aleman's Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide...
...Lord Horder, a firm opponent of socialized medicine, attacked Britain's new National Health Service Act: "We had hoped that it would be through . . . evolution, rather than through the method of revolution that is now being adopted, that Government would help us to [improve medical care...
...Department's recent and timely offer of anti-influenza injections to all undergraduates serves as an example of the type of anti-disease program that can be executed by a college medical center and, at the same time, points up one of the most marked deficiencies of Harvard health care--the lack of systematic x-ray examinations for University members. Students are no less susceptible to disease than workers in any other sedentary occupation. Yet the prevailing type of examination given to Freshmen and veterans will uncover only such symptoms as are subject to external visual detection...
...Experiments. Liveliest subject : the dog shortage. The doctors agreed that anti-vivisectionists and other organized dog lovers who care more for a few dogs than for millions of human beings were blocking medical progress.* Said Dr. Carl J. Wiggers of Western Reserve University: "We may have millions for research . . . but if we have no dogs, this foundation may as well fold...