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Tufts University physicist Allan M. Cormack, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize foe medicine for his development of a sophisticated x-ray machine, said yesterday that despite the device's high cost, every major hospital ought to have...
...Cormack said he believes physicians' demands for improvements in the device were responsible for keeping the prices high. Doctors, he said, continually asked for "the new and improved model" and this naturally drove up development costs...
...Cormack shares his prize which was announced Thursday with British engineer Godfrey N. Housfield who designed the first working CAT scanner for EMI, a British company...
Before delegations switched their votes and Carter was declared the convention's nominee by acclamation, he had rolled up 2,238½ votes to 329½ for Udall, 300½ for Brown, 57 for Wallace and 22 for Anti-Abortionist Ellen Mc-Cormack.* There were few surprises in the preordained voting result-and, thus, no great display of emotion...
...brides themselves are often the most unfortunate victims of the system. Says Margaret Cormack, an American sociologist who has made an extensive study of the dowry practice: "Indian women well know the humiliation of being exhibited to scouting parties like a prize heifer." Young wives are frequently mistreated by in-laws who later decide that the dowry was inadequate. In New Delhi alone last year, 89 women committed suicide because they could not stand the persecution of their husbands and in-laws who wanted additional dowry payments...