Word: fe
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...nominee at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.,entered Government service through the National Institute of Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947 he was given a 90-day assignment to run personnel and organization for the Atomic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N. Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos town manager as well until 1951. He joined the Civil Service Commission in 1953 as executive director and, apart from a three-year period when he worked on the "outside" in the field of education, has been with the commission ever...
...illness that is gradually choking to death a million or more Americans might be expected to be a well-known subject of intensive attack by medical scientists. But the progressive and eventually fatal shortness of breath that doctors call emphysema (pronounced em-fe-see-muh) is so little known that it has no common English name. Until recently few laymen even realized that it existed,* and most doctors thought it was rare. But emphysema is rapidly changing its status. It is now recognized as probably the most common disabling disorder of the respiratory system...
...service? The couplings on many passenger coaches are so faulty that the locomotive sometimes chugs out of the station leaving the cars behind. Trains from La Paz, Bolivia, and Asunción, Paraguay, often arrive three days late; the 250-mile trip from Santa Fe south to Buenos Aires often takes 14 hours and sometimes more. Cattlemen have angrily protested to the government about cattle trains from the pampas that arrive at the stockyards with 20% of the livestock dead...
...restore ceremony to their services. And the big branches of Christianity more and more make common cause in facing the world; last week the Santa Fe Archdiocese announced that it would join the New Mexico Council of Churches-the first time that a Catholic church ever chose to affiliate with the Protestants and Orthodox in the federated National Council of Churches...
Died. Randall Davey, 77, leader of Santa Fe's art colony, best known for equestrian studies that convey the raw-edged excitement of race tracks with gaudy colors and slapdash compositions, but most appreciated for his brutally incisive portraits (at fees up to $10,000) of such notables as John Galsworthy and the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal; of injuries when his Jaguar overturned near Baker, Calif...