Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scales inched close to the 250-lb. mark, the lady decided the time had come for action, even though she knew the "Fat Farm," as she called it, would be no Fun City. So Mrs. Richard J. Hughes, 46, wife of the New Jersey Governor, checked into Kempner clinic at Duke University Medical Center for a course in dieting. The pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication...
...particular, acting out Theater means, say, establishing free stores where everything belongs to everybody or nobody. "A store or goods or clinic or restaurant that is free becomes a social art form." Behind this heady jargon is the undeniable enchantment of a description of a free store...
...destitute are bedded down in churches and private homes, get free medical attention at Cambridgeport Clinic and legal aid from volunteer lawyers. To keep the hippies busy, Parks Commissioner John Warner has supplied tools to clear 25 debris-cluttered city lots. Self-styled Hippie Agronomist John MacConnell, 30, a Syracuse University dropout, plans to plant corn in the lots because he thinks that "everyone should have a chance to eat sweet corn out of a garden...
...Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best pediatric clinics in the Arab Middle East. Mrs. Vester, herself a Presbyterian, capped a distinguished career in 1963 by obtaining enough polio vaccine from the U.S. to inoculate 300,000 Jordanian children...
...Jacques Gottlieb, of Detroit's Lafayette Clinic, told a tale of three laboratories: Lafayette, the Massachusetts' Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Institute of Psychiatry. Independently, each had discovered increased amounts of a component of the alpha-2-globulin fraction in the blood of schizophrenia victims. Alpha-2-globulin is a normal part of blood plasma, containing many proteins. In the blood of 60% of the schizophrenics studied by Gottlieb, the fraction was present at far-above-normal levels. The excessive alpha-2-globulin, Gottlieb theorizes, may perforate brain-cell walls...