Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngsters in the family of doctorates include the doctorate of Music (Mus. D.), first established in 1936, and the Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.), given initially in 1936, to Alumni Bulletin writer David McCord. Thus, the spectrum of the honorary degree has expanded so that it includes nearly every conceivable area of accomplishment...
...spur-of-the-moment party out to see the Washington Senators win a close one (7-6) from the Boston Red Sox. got two autographed baseballs (one after a homer) from Senator Slugger Harmon Killebrew to give to grandson David. Ike laughed at a photographer's suggestion that Press Secretary James Hagerty, a dedicated New York Yankee fan, ought to replace cellar-dwelling Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. Quipped the President: "He couldn't do much worse...
East. Britian's Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, signed a five-year trade agreement in Moscow. Britain's purchases from the Soviet Union (chiefly timber, grain, furs) should now rise by a third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants...
Physician Hawley offered this explanation: nowadays, nearly everybody has insurance to cover the basic cost of surgery, and every insured patient is a paying patient. At the Manhattan dinner where Hawley spoke, Dr. David M. Heyman got in a plug for systems such as the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, of which he is honorary board chairman. Under its group practice, said Dr. Heyman, doctors receive no extra fees for operations-so "there's no incentive for unnecessary surgery...
...Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays in his ivory tower...