Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny Florida day, in the bachelor officers' quarters of the U.S. Naval Base at Key West. Behind a steel table stood the President, looking a bit thin about the face and neck, but tanned and healthy. "First of all," he said to the reporters, "the doctor tells me that what he calls my vital capacity is very much improved. I don't know...
...Doctor's Opinion. During his busy three days in Washington, Kubitschek lost no opportunity to press his case. He packed in two state dinners (hosts: Vice President Richard Nixon, Secretary Dulles) and a frantic round of handshaking and speechmaking. Everywhere he stressed the point that Brazil remains a staunch friend of the U.S., with both feet firmly in the camp of democracy. The U.S.'s "stimulating atmosphere of freedom and progress," he said, "could but strengthen, were it necessary, my profound democratic convictions and my confidence in the fortunes of the free world to which our two nations...
...rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never got one. When the Richardsons' lawyer appealed the case, the school board sided with Principal White. "But it's the parents' right," argued the Richardsons, as Shirley's ostracism continued, "to decide what to wear, not the principal...
Will to Health. Doctors are not sure how hypertension gets started or how it can be cured. In its early stages, it is often ignored. Said one doctor: "The kindest thing to do when one discovers a patient with hypertension but no [obvious] symptoms is to keep the information to oneself." Damage to the overworked heart and degeneration in body cells may eventually follow. Then hypertension is frequently a killer...
...plot is no heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...