Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next morning, he left aboard the Columbine for a golfer's vacation. On the way to Augusta the President made one quick stop to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from his old friend and comrade-in-arms, General Mark Wayne Clark, who is now president of the Citadel, "the Military College of South Carolina...
After morning committee meetings, George gets to the Democrats' Senate cloakroom by 11:45 and holds informal court in a brown leather chair, smoking filter-tipped cigarettes (doctor's orders) and strewing ashes all over his coat front. Younger Democrats know that they can find him there, often drop by for aid or advice, e.g., when a junior Senator, heading his first subcommittee, recently asked George how he could get a reluctant Cabinet member to testify at hearings, George said he would look into the matter. The Cabinet officer dutifully appeared before the subcommittee early the next week...
...admitted to hospitals each year for legal abortions. A professor at Stockholm's largest women's clinic was reported for "cruelty" because he told a patient that the abortion she was about to have was the same as murdering one of her previous children. An Uppsala doctor was called a "fascist" in letters to the press because he made the statement that Sweden loses the equivalent of one regiment a year through
...Salk, at least, other rewards were multiplying. Judges headed by Dr. Charles W. Mayo picked him to receive $10,000, tax free, and a gold medal awarded by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back...
...Samuel A. Levine of Harvard Medical School told the convention that relatively few patients with heart disease should have to be sent away from home for expensive diagnosis. In 90% of the cases, a family doctor with proper training should be able to make a diagnosis...