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...Maxwell Finland (Harvard Medical School): "The argument that the practicing physician is the only one who can determine efficacy . . . is an invitation to all manufacturers to dump into the hands of busy practitioners any and all types of good and bad drugs and devices, and let them learn, at the expense and peril of their patients, whether they are any help. With over 200,000 physicians and their patients as potential prey, the result would be untold harm...
...July 16); the Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, Conn. (July 23); Dr. J. Lawrence Burk-holder, Divinity School (July 30); the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Hyde Park Baptist Church of Chicago (August 6); and Dr. Aarne Siirala, former Director of the Lay Academy, Church of Finland...
Died. Ralf Torngren, 62, Finland's Foreign Minister since 1959, a mild-mannered peacemaker who, as Premier for five months in 1954 and Foreign Minister under two other governments, helped his nation preserve its precarious neutrality; of a heart attack; in Turku, Finland...
Loud huzzahs have rung out for Mayer's presentation of real-life episodes straight from the classroom. But there are barely enough of them to keep the casual reader awake as he plows through acres of badly-presented theory and travelogue. (Mayer went to England, France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway, as well as places in the U.S.--which just broadened an already unmanageable scope...
...Kelley-one of the narrowest margins in the Boston Marathon's 65-year history. "You can get just so much out of yourself," said exhausted John Kelley. "I couldn't get any more." Winner Oksanen wandered off to bathe his blistered feet and explain his victory. "In Finland," he said, "we don't ride around in automobiles like you do over here. There, everybody runs...