Word: davidson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, Drs. James Weinstein and Barry Davidson, young doctors at Tufts-New England Medical Center, started experimenting with water beds made from sheets of plastic stretched over tubs. The basic idea came from 19th century doctors who tried water mattresses constructed on the same principle. But like its predecessors, the Weinstein-Davidson product weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that...
...doctors were expected by the public and their patients to report every threatening remark, they would soon have few patients. Moreover, as New York's Deputy Police Commissioner Sylvan Fox noted last week, "we can't arrest people because they are ill." Adds New Jersey Psychiatrist Henry A. Davidson: "We are in a situation now where there is enormous pressure for civil rights. The idea of locking someone up on the basis of a psychiatrist's opinion that he might in the future be violent could be repugnant." It would also be a very poor way to help the vast...
...stiff price of tickets (from $3.50 to $10). But no one was discouraged. The festival, financed with $170,000 raised by the community, was conceived as a "cultural counterattack" on the "sex, suds and sand reputation" of Daytona, and such things take time. Says Festival Director Tippen Davidson: "Something was needed to round out our tourist image-not just naked girls being bounced on a beach blanket...
Duke, the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Davidson have been given top priority for organizational work this Fall...
...served 27 years on the court-to repeat a half-serious offer to resign from the bench, tendered to President Kennedy after his second divorce in 1963. His first marriage, to Mildred Riddle, ended in 1953 after 30 years and two children; his second, to Divorcee Mercedes Hester Davidson, lasted nine years; his third, to Joan Carol Martin, 26, broke up last December after two years, four months...