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...School of Medicine program designed to lighten the work loads of practicing physicians by training nurses to perform most of the duties of a pediatrician, and to carry medical care to the children of poverty-stricken laboring families, including many Spanish-Americans, who rarely consult a doctor except in dire emergencies. To its founder, Pediatrics Professor Henry Silver, 48, the program is immensely promising in every aspect except for the unwieldy name that has been hung on the new breed of nurses: "pediatric public-health nurse-practitioners...
...Pipedream. Even the Russians did not claim that the U.S. had bombed innocent civilians. Indeed, though the Administration had dire misgivings in advance about world reaction, most foreign comment was either fairly mild or else cut-and-dried violent, as if the tirades had been spiked for weeks in expectation of the raids...
...with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...
...action involves creativity, but most of it could more accurately be called administrative federalism. It gives the states and localities options about how they run and implement federal programs. Perhaps the best example is the $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which Congress passed last year despite dire forecasts of the inevitable erosion of local control of U.S. education. Far from trying to undercut local educators, Washington has taken great pains to ensure that the functions of planning and decision making remain in their hands. Roughly $1 billion of the money goes to local boards of education to spend...
...same margin by which it was defeated last year. Even if it had passed both houses of Congress, the amendment would still have required ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures-and three-fourths have already completed the onerous task of reapportionment with, as yet, none of the dire consequences foreseen by Dirksen. Though Ev vowed doggedly to make a fourth try next year, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield pronounced the Dirksen amendment "a dead issue...