Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from volunteers at regular intervals and analyzing their lipoproteins, Dr. Gofman is now convinced that he has enough experience to forecast whether a given individual will suffer from atherosclerosis. (Other researchers are not sure that he is right. Three laboratories-at Harvard, the University of Pittsburgh and the Cleveland Clinic-have been running experiments to prove or disprove the Gofman thesis.) Still to be explored is the possibility that a more fundamental mechanism is involved: a defect in body chemistry-the way in which an individual metabolizes either fats or proteins...
Toynbee's appearance here last fall caused a near-riot as an overflow crowd of 5,000 demonstrated outside the theater. Demonstrators, gathering in lines from Sanders to Littauer Center, scaled Memorial Hall fire escapes and broke into the Psychological Clinic beneath the stage in attempts to enter the meeting...
...being pronounced Class E and therefore "completely uninsurable." Most marvelous boon of all is the "Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning (a common ailment), or dying of disease for which The Company scientists have not yet found a cure, may sign his life into abeyance at the Clinic, receive a simple injection and get himself filed away inside a clear plastic bubble down in the deep-freeze vaults until the time, five or ten or 50 years hence, when a cure is found, and The Company deems him a safe actuarial risk once more...
...Intelligence. (Barron and colleagues found that neurotic patients at a psychiatric clinic had chances of successful treatment in proportion to their intelligence...
Died. Howard Kramer ("Howdie") Gray, 54, famed Mayo Clinic abdominal surgeon, who operated on James Roosevelt in 1938, professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, one of Princeton University's athletic greats as end on the undefeated football "team of destiny" in 1922; by drowning as he swam to retrieve a dinghy; in Lake Pepin, Minn...