Word: establishments
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Patients by Air. Ochsner, actually a pleasant and sophisticated man and no hell-roarer, soon showed his skill as teacher, surgeon and organizer. Between fishing trips and serving as king of the Mardi Gras, he found time to establish the Ochsner Clinic, which he built into a "Mayos' of the South," and a hospital operated by the Ochsner Foundation. The hospital is so modern that it has its own heliport, largely to receive casualties from tidewater oil rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause...
...theology faculty, and $4,324,200 from the Ford Foundation's great gift to U.S. colleges (TIME, Dec. 26), the University of Chicago received an estimated $15 million plus from the will of the late Louis Block, Joliet (Ill.) industrialist (Blockson Chemical Co.). The bequest is to establish the "Louis Block fund for basic research and advanced study" in the physical and biological sciences...
...Thompsonville, Conn., the parents of Seventh Grader Shirley Richardson vowed to continue fighting to establish their right to decide what their daughter should wear to school. For the five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White disapproved of her corduroy slacks. When her parents argued that Shirley wore slacks because of a leg operation, White replied that he wanted to see a doctor's affidavit. The school board turned down an appeal from the Richardsons' attorney...
...penal authorities have been operating on the opposite theory: at "detention centers" at Kidlington, near Oxford, and Goudhurst in Kent, they have been putting delinquents through a rugged "basic training" course with surprising success. Last week, despite scattered criticism, the Prison Commission went ahead with plans to establish two new detention centers...
...Brigham Young himself. Lee recognized and obeyed only two superiors-God Almighty and Brigham Young. If these two seemed to differ, then Lee went along with Young as the man who knew more than God about Utah and politics. So when the Mormons decided to press southward to establish new cities and expand the Kingdom of the Saints, Young made Lee one of the principal leaders of the expedition. And Lee knew exactly what his duty was. He was to be fruitful and multiply, so that the hosts of Mormon might cover the face of the earth. Helped (according...