Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impassioned hour and 40 minutes in defense of India's seizure of disputed Kashmir, India's waspish V. K. Krishna Menon, the United Nations' champion long-distance speaker, collapsed in a heap one day last week and had to be rushed off to the medical clinic...
...present, three buildings are on the land, including Lenox Hall, a five-story dormitory housing 210 women. There is also a structure at 6 Everett St., housing three gymnasia, four classrooms, a physical therapy clinic, and lounges. The third building is a residential dormitory for seniors at 3 Sacramento...
...session eight months ago, a white-collar office worker sparked the answer to the problem of how to design a new tire machine; he had attacked the problem without any preconceived technical notion that it was impossible. Motorola's President Robert Galvin has set up a special "idea clinic" along much the same lines. Motorola's ticket of admission to the clinic is a list of 10-25 ideas on a company problem. Then the lucky thinkers spend a free weekend at a luxurious hotel or country club chewing over their ideas, looking for the best solution. Says...
Cleveland's Dr. Arthur C. Corcoran checked stroke victims' blood pressure, found that abnormally high pressure predisposes a person to strokes, especially of the hemorrhagic type. In such cases it would be dangerous to use anticoagulant drugs (because of the risk of further hemorrhage); the Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that they could lower the blood pressure with hypotensive drugs, arid later use anticoagulants safely to minimize the risk of subsequent strokes...
Architect Kirk was eager to tackle their problem. A childhood victim of polio, he had long since come to the conclusion that "architecture can be medicine, or at least part of the therapy." His answer is a long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks...