Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Colds & 'Copters With proper punctilio, the presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of tracheitis, i.e., inflammation of the windpipe, accompanied by persistent coughing. Ike picked up his trouble, said Snyder, while standing for hours in the brisk and breezy weather of Inauguration Day last month reviewing the inaugural parade. Not even Georgia's warm sunshine had burned it off. As a precautionary measure, Ike slipped off to Walter Reed Army Hospital the day after his TV speech on Israel...
Three physicians from various branches of medicine discussed the general questions of the qualifications for a good doctor and the opportunities in a medical career last night at the Career Conference held in the Winthrop Junior Common Room...
...heads of the governments of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have acted to keep Western Europe from becoming an anachronism. Their agreement upon two treaties, creating a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), is an important step toward the unity Europe needs to maintain a significant role in world power politics. A compartmentalized Western Europe has been losing economic and political stature beside Russia and the United States...
Europe's productive capacity has also been limited by national boundaries. Big tariffs in the small countries have discouraged the growth of large, efficient industries, since most would not find a supranational market. The Common Market will do away with economic compartmentalization by gradually removing internal barriers. The movement of capital for investment will be made easier, and a common external trade policy should enhance the community's position...
Economic unity is only the beginning of political unity. Common political attitudes will arise from identical financial interests, and although independent political action may be the first sign of Europe's strength, the United States should prefer a self-sufficient ally to a band of weak subsidiaries...