Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the calmest doctor in the U.S. last week was Dr. Jonas E. Salk, who was in Washington during Secretary Hobby's conference, but was bent on other business. With his wife and three sons (Peter, 11, Darrell, 8, and Jonathan, 5) he went to the White House rose garden, where Dwight Eisenhower read and presented him with a special citation for a "historic contribution to human welfare ... in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research...
...Boss. It was at 6:33 p.m. on Friday, when many people would normally be starting a weekend trip, that Baylor University's Dean Stanley Olson was called to the phone in the Doctors' Club dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near...
...from the hospital, he has just installed an ingenious electronic warning system in the house of a gangster. He and his criminal client are admiring it when suddenly the alarm sounds; a time bomb has just been shoved through a cellar window. At the very moment the doctor in the hospital snips the umbilical cord of the baby girl, the young father', sweating with tension, snips the bomb's wires and saves the gangster's life. This is a high point in a movie called Wiretapper, designed by ex-Wiretapper Jim Vaus to bring sinners to repentance...
...Nephew Juanin: "And the fuses always blow up." In the semidarkness, Rosamond Bernier saw a room cluttered with ancient furniture, presided over by Picasso's smiling sister, Doña Lola, wrapped in a sheet held together with safety pins, and flanked by two more Picasso nephews, both doctors. "Mama suffers from rheumatism and can't sleep. None of us goes to bed before 6." the family explained, then plunged into the evening's entertainment. Doctor Pablin began plucking out a lively flamenco on his guitar. Lolita sat down at the piano. In no time Juanin began...
...Like a doctor who finds a patient in good health but warns him against his tendency to overeat, some of the nation's economists have concluded that U.S. industry would be wise to curb its boundless appetite. The Federal Reserve Board, noting that business borrowings for expansion are heavier than they have been since 1953, decided the time had come to apply a mild brake before the boom gets out of hand. The brake: a boost in the rediscount rate from 1½ to 1¾ Since this is the rate at which member banks borrow from the Federal...