Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nylon stockings. Love keeps a sharp eye peeled for ways to improve Bur-Mil's products. To test Burlington's fabrics, he gets samples of clothing which other manufacturers make from them, and has Burlington's employees wear them. He set up a monthly fashion clinic for the big clothing designers and manufacturers, thus anticipates (and sometimes creates) trends...
About a year ago, the National Student Association came up with what looked like a good thing. It was a Student Council Clinic. The idea was that since most student governments come up against similar problems, a lot could be learned from inter-council discussions. One council could profit from another's experience in an atmosphere unfettered by formality or Mr. Roberts' ubiquitous rules...
There have been four clinics so far--called Great or Boston Student Government Conferences--and it looks like the student government people are going to need a clinic on how to run a clinic. The NSA people, despite their pious protestations, are acting suspiciously as though they want to make the Greater Boston Group a subcommission of the NSA. This would eliminate those schools who do not want to become part of an NSA subcommission. At the same time, such a move would do little except gratify some NSA people who like to make noises like politicians...
...clinic can still be helpful. But if either the NSA partisans or their opposition has its way, we had better forget the whole thing...
...case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food, FDA heard...