Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clash was over an amendment by Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges to cut off military aid to Yugoslavia. The amendment was defeated, but the pair have promised to renew the battle when the bill goes to the balky Senate this week. Predicted Minnesota's Edward Thye wearily: "We're going to have a hard and bitter fight...
...what purpose are the added years put? Will these millions of aging men and women be allowed to fall victim to a succession of so-called degenerative diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they...
...recognition of geriatrics' special place is not coming fast enough to satisfy Gerontologist Cowdry or swashbuckling, iconoclastic Geriatrician Edward J. Stieglitz, 57, of Washington, D.C. Complains Cowdry: "Medicine has shunned geriatrics. It has viewed the elderly patient as a bad pay risk. It has misdiagnosed and maltreated him." He estimates that fully 30% of mental-hospital inmates over 65 have diseases no more "mental" than partial paralysis, heart trouble, untidiness, nutritional problems, or high blood pressure...
...Chicago interior decorating service headed by Mystery Man William Lydon, a policeman who was once indicted (and later acquitted) in the murder of a Chicago madam. Fabric-Craft and two other companies headed by Lydon listed two Hodge aides as officers: Chief Personnel Officer Lloyd Lane and Administrative Assistant Edward A. Epping. Epping, half owner of an accounting firm retained by the auditor's office, was accused by a Southmoor Bank attorney of cashing $240,000 worth of suspicious checks...
Speakers at the Conference generally agreed with Saudek that television leaves much to be desired as an educational medium. Yet they emphasized that, in the words of Edward Stanley of N.B.C., "orthodox education as such is not suited for broadcast to the general American public." Instead of just presenting a daily lesson in the conventional form, "television must illustrate the lesson by adding material that is not ordinarily available in the classroom," according to Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...