Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Maternity Center is unlike any other clinic in the U.S. Instead of taking expectant mothers to already-jammed charity wards, the center's delivery teams sally forth like commandos into the cramped, airless homes of the city's poor. Day or night, they never refuse a call. Despite the high percentage of last-minute cases, the teams have compiled a striking record: in more than 8,339 home deliveries during the last 30 months, no mother has died. Of some 300 pathological cases requiring hospitalization, only three have proved fatal...
Seattle's McVicar Hardware Co. goes even further. Each Friday night the store clears its counters and holds a "do-it-yourself clinic" for 100 people on such subjects as gardening and interior decorating, with a manufacturer's representative on hand to lecture. Owner McVicar has set up a free coffee dispenser so that customers can help themselves while making up their minds on what to buy. "The coffee stimulates their brains," says Mc Vicar. "There isn't any place to set a cup down, so they just go round and round, getting warmer and more receptive...
...meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
...minus one bride. The-vanished one: Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patino, 23, Manhattan's "most beautiful debutante" of 1948, divorced last November by Britain's former Amateur Golf Champion Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa as correspondent. A patient in a Rome clinic, where she was being treated for hypochondria and the sleeping-pill fad, Joanne, lamented young Jaime Patino, "had taken everything-all her clothes, her jewels and my jewels -and gone." In Yugoslavia, on official invitation from Marshal Tito's government, Harold C. McClellan, president of the U.S.'s National Association...
...been derelict in their duty to medical science and in many cases to their patients, one of their own number suggested last week at a Chicago meeting of the American Heart Association. Though he was speaking at his installation as president-elect, Dr. Irvine H. Page of the Cleveland Clinic wasted no time on the usual banalities...