Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, change came to Barsha in the shape of a government organizer from Cairo, who convinced the villagers that they should pool their resources in a cooperative and set up interest-free loans for seed and fertilizer. The government has built a combined school and medical clinic to serve Barsha and other villages (the building is still empty for lack of a technical staff). A circuit-riding doctor pays a once-a-week call at Barsha, and Cairo surprised the villagers last year by passing out free insecticides to combat the cotton-worm blight and, when this failed, paid...
...though, it was not the Yankees or Frick or financial problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...
...Sigmund Freud's six children to achieve eminence in the field he pioneered. Freud's youngest daughter and his favorite child, diminutive, Vienna-trained Anna was constantly with him during the last, cancer-ravaged years of his life, has directed London's Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic since 1938. At Yale, she will do research on family life and law and participate in seminars with select scholars during the spring terms...
Also departing are some great synthesizers, for example, Harvard's protean Henry A. Murray, 69, professor of clinical psychology, who spent four decades probing human personality from every conceivable angle. A Groton graduate and captain of the Harvard crew ('15), Murray went on to become a Manhattan surgeon, a Rockefeller Institute embryologist, a Cambridge University Ph.D. (biochemistry), a personal student of Psychiatrist Carl Jung. He ran the Harvard Psychological Clinic, designed the personality-assessing Thematic Apperception Test, won a Legion of Merit medal for his work in the wartime OSS, and conducted impeccable personal research into everything from...
Blacked Out by War. Although the operation was developed in Japan 20 years ago, Dr. Overholt, whose Overholt Thoracic Clinic is one of the world's most distinguished centers for treatment of chest diseases, heard of the technique only in 1957. Then, a visiting Japanese physician described work done by Professor Komei Nakayama of Chiba University during World War II's blackout on international reporting of scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded...