Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood, U.S.-style ("Every child a wanted child"), baffle many a Jamaican sire, but the Beth Jacobs Clinic does its best to spread the word. Last week Mrs. Jacobs was on her way to the International Planned Parenthood Federation's sixth international conference in New Delhi to report on the results...
...Beth wants is no more unwed mothers running around here, shoving pickneys off on old grandmothers to raise." But one island matron sniffed that "Beth Jacobs is just teaching single girls how to use contraceptives." Bishop John J. McEleney warned the Roman Catholic 6% of the population against the clinic. Occasional signs chalked on walls say, "Birth control is a plan to kill Negroes...
...have more peace of mind than I've ever known," exulted jade-eyed Cinemactress Gene Tierney last fall, serene after eight months of psychiatric care at Kansas' famed Menninger Clinic (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week 20th Century-Fox sadly announced that Actress Tierney would not be able to report next month for work on what was to be her first picture since 1955's The Left Hand of God. Of her own volition, she had re-entered the clinic for further treatment...
Once an assistant editor of Architectural Review, Betjeman has a rare knowledge and love of English places that is even more famed in Britain than his poetry. To keep his island from becoming "a right little, tight little clinic," he is constantly embroiled in some passionate public campaign -to subdue TV aerials, to save ancient towing canals or musty little churches. He writes glowing guidebooks, and he has so cleaned up the despised name of Victorian Gothic architecture that some of his readers are able to look even on London's Stygian train terminals with a kindly...
Medical students with normal blood patterns were fed the cottonseed oil diet from the clinic's kitchens for three weeks, and showed consistent drops in their circulating cholesterol-a clue as to whether the system is being overloaded with fat. Patients with atherosclerosis-some with diabetes or high blood pressure, and some who had already had heart attacks-were kept on the diet for as long as eight months, usually with home cooking. In every case their abnormally high cholesterol levels showed a gratifying drop...