Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong-willed defender of Quebec against the marauding British colonists from the south. Counties in Ontario and Quebec, a street in Montreal and even towns in far-off Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri bear his name. Frontenac's memory was also perpetuated in Quebec's famed Château Frontenac, by a statue in Quebec City and, until a recent brewery merger, as the brand name of a potent Canadian beer...
...Mexico's 30 states where there were none before. After graduate studies in Mexico City, others have gone back to practice in the U.S., Europe and every Latin American republic. Thirty doctors are now taking the two-year course. "As a young nation," says Dr. Chávez, "Mexico has no tradition in scientific research." Members of his staff are doing much to remedy that, with new techniques for X-raying the heart and great vessels, advances in the use of the electrocardiograph, and a promising drug called Thedetoidin, which resembles digitalis but acts faster...
Would-be Historian Chávez has managed to write a little on Mexican history in his spare time, but, through the institute, he has done more to make it. Says he: "It is false and niggardly to believe that because we are a modest country our hospitals must be sordid and our patients must lack essentials. Yes, modern hospitals can function in Mexico...
...only a legend that Mexico City's altitude (7,800 ft.) causes heart trouble, says Dr. Chávez. Though some visitors who arrive with heart disease may feel distress and be advised to leave, natives and long-term residents are not affected. Only above 10,000 ft. does altitude trouble the healthy heart, he says...
...settings are a real wonder-perfect secondhand château; and the photography catches them in just that faintly too-dreamy glow in which they are seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...