Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Search & Seizure. California law aggravates the rash of malpractice suits: one trick provision compels the defendant doctor to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiff. The epidemic in Los Angeles is especially severe because Southern California is full of elderly hypochondriacs. Says Dr. Regan; "We have so many people in the fringe group here-the lunatic fringe, that is." Examples: one woman, accusing her surgeon of having left needles in her arm, stuck 26 sewing needles into herself; another woman, claiming that she had been examined without her consent, sued under the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search & seizure...
...educational circles to talk about religion. The speeches at the institute amply demonstrated the change in the times. Some of the addresses were out of theology's top drawer, e.g., laymen were left to struggle along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez faire capitalism and Communism, Unionist Reuther made his bow to religion by calling upon it to "provide man with...
Former editor of the Moscow Daily News and an expert on the Far East, Miss Strong is on a lecture tour at the present time...
...minor characters, from the lesser Win-slows to the handwriting expert at the trial, are unusually fine. Director Anthony Asquith had taken advantage of this good casting, an excellent script, and judicious amounts of inspiring London Symphony Orchestra music, to turn a much-praised play into an exciting, fast-moving movie...
Although the idea of "Project Cirrus" had been well received by expert meteorologists, the plan met with unexpected opposition from Catskill residents yesterday. Ulster Country farmers and hotel owners filed a suit naming Mayor William O'Dwyer and water officials of the city as "conspirators" in the perpetration of a "gigantic hoax...