Word: godsends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western Washington, Instructor Richard Cobb says: "Ten are going to fail, one should have been sent home the first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most of the students still must survive a year or more of high school back in their home environment, where this summer's glow can easily fade. "When you aspire, like they say," wonders one Negro boy, "don't you get slapped down that much easier?" Aware...
...Boerema had begun by using high-pressure oxygen to combat gas gangrene. Reasoning that the microbes that cause gangrene are of types that thrive without oxygen, he succeeded in killing the microbes by flooding them with oxygen. Since then hyperbaric conditions in the operating room have proved a godsend when treating infants with congenital heart defects. Working in an old and relatively primitive Navy chamber, Harvard's Dr. William F. Bernhard and his colleagues have now operated on 80 such infants and children, have had only one patient die during surgery...
...they had any complaint, it was that Washington did not go far enough. Most pleased of all was Premier General Nguyen Khanh, who has in recent weeks called for tougher moves against Red North Viet Nam. Khanh had another reason to be happy: the crisis was also a political godsend...
FRANK SUGRUE Producer-Managing Director The Charles Playhouse Boston Sir: Your fine article was a godsend to the Memphis community. People at long last are beginning to appreciate what actor-director-producer George Touliatos has been fighting so hard to keep alive -talent...
Last of Its Kind? The rush for rooms with a view abroad is a godsend for the big U.S. hotelmen, since business at home is not what it used to be. Speedy jets have made it possible for businessmen to fly into a city and out again swiftly, transacting all their business in one day. Families traveling by car have long since bypassed downtown hotels for motels and plush motor hotels. Hotel occupancy rates have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year...