Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the Nationalist majority easily (91-48) overrode the opposition United Party's no-confidence motion. But the Nationalists are in serious disarray. Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists...
...child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took...
That night Joke began to vomit. Her parents wrapped the vomit in newspaper and tossed it into the stove. Next morning Joke seemed all right and went off to kindergarten; her father threw the ashes from the stove on a backyard dump. A doctor, checking radium needles at the hospital, noticed that the tip of the one used on Joke (it had already been condemned because of oxidation at the junction of head and shaft) was missing. When it could not be found in the treatment room, out went the alarm...
...SLEUTHS can seize insurance policies of tax delinquents who leave U.S., ruled Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Setting precedent, court said that Government may claim cash-surrender value of two policies held by a West Virginia doctor who skipped to Canada after conviction on income tax evasion...
Double Header. In Charmes, France, rescuers called a physician to treat Raymond Bralley, 54, who had stumbled in the dark and fallen into a stream, saw the doctor arrive, stumble in the dark, fall into the stream...