Word: edwin
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Headaches of Work. Others saw far more potential trouble in the new act-the possibility that it would strain the nation's short supply of doctors, nurses and hospital beds. On the other hand, Dr. Edwin Crosby, director of the American Hospital Association, saw U.S. hospitals as easily able to absorb the influx of Medicare patients. And most Government authorities agreed. But they also worried lest the A.M.A.'s stand add unnecessarily to the headaches of making Medicare work...
Situated at the crossroads of Occident and Orient, frequently buffeted by the cross winds of Arab nationalism and Moslem dogmatism, A.U.B. has from its beginning been torn by controversy. As early as 1882, 43 years before the Scopes trial in the U.S., A.U.B. Professor Edwin R. Lewis endorsed Darwin's evolution theories in a commencement speech and was forced to resign in the ensuing furor. Striking students clashed with police in 1952, when A.U.B. banned pro-Arab politicking on campus, then disbanded the student government. Last spring the ultrasensitive government of Lebanon, serving a population half Moslem and half...
...Modern industry requires a measure of individual initiative, self-reliance, risk-taking. It requires a belief in progress, in the reality of the material world. Instead of a fixed order, it needs a fluid system in which people can rise through merit. It does not necessarily require democracy, although Edwin Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, points out that it must have literacy and mass communication-which usually lead people to demand more participation in their government...
...scholar turned politician may be a contradiction in terms, but for Edwin A. Reischauer, ex-Ambassador to Japan, the combination proved a felicitous...
Richard A. DeAngelis, of Chevy Chase, Md. (Social Studies); William B. Ginsberg, of Shaker Heights, Ohio (Mathematics); Paul I. Meyer, of University City, Mo. (Government); Walter N. Nichipor, of Fall River (Classics); Stephen J. Suffern, of New York City (Government); Edwin A. Toth, of Cheshire, Conn. (Anthropology); Jose E. Trias, of San Juan, Puerto Rico (Economics); Howard B. Waitzkin, of Akron, Ohio (Social Relations) and Raphael W Zahler, of Little Neck, N.Y. (Mathematics...