Word: geiger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geiger said that medical care for Negroes in Mississippi is completely inadequate. He noted that...
...Medical Committee for Human Rights plans to establish local health centers throughout Mississippi, Dr. Jack Geiger, assistant professor of Public Health and director of the MCHR, disclosed last night...
...Geiger said that MCHR-trained public health nurses working under local Negro physicians will staff the center. Negro health associations will be organized to support the centers and continue their work after the Northerners go home...
Speaking at the Med School's Vanderbilt Hall in Boston, Geiger proposed that "medicine and medical care be used as an instrument of social change...
...Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north of Tokyo, rose from zero to 30,000 micromicro-curies per square meter of ground. The level...