Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails (a rye on the rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation. One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East...
Baring her left arm, the Seattle housewife stepped around the fire engine and up to the doctor and nurse waiting at the rear of the firehouse. Deftly the doctor inoculated her with 1 cc. of Salk polio vaccine, and seconds later she was on her way home. "Why," she exclaimed to a fireman at the door, "that line moves faster than the free-coffee line in a supermarket...
...scattered around the nation, a few medical societies still huffily rejected free and cut-rate inoculations. In some cities only people willing to classify themselves as "indigent" could get free shots. Said one Ohio county health commissioner: "If a polio epidemic comes this summer, any doctor driving his car down the street is going to hear from the people, rotten tomatoes and all." For whatever reason, despite the vaccination campaign, nearly half of the nation's estimated 109 million people under 40 have so far received no polio shots, and only 10% have received all three...
...invitation to the festival, which is being held this year for the first time, was issued to the Harvard Dramatic Club. Deathwatchis an independent production but neither Hamletnor The Doctor's Dilemma,this year's HDC productions, fulfilled the requirement of a one-act play...
...other focal character is a derelict doctor who, we are rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they...