Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Margaret E. Canty was the victim of "severe character disorders" when she was examined in connection with the alleged embezzlement of a large sum of money from the University in 1957, an official of the University Health Services disclosed yesterday...
...radiation effects comes mainly as the result of an annoying squabble within the administration. Exactly which government body should guard the country against fall-out has never been precisely defined, but up to the present time, the Atomic Energy Commission has assumed that responsibility. Recently however, the Public Health Service declared that logically such control should come under its own jurisdiction. The AEC, not caring to relinquish any part of its functions, accused the Health Service of a power grab, and decided to sit tight...
...President's committee consists of AEC director John A. McCone, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Fleming, and Maurice S. Stans, director of the Budget Bureau. Stans is the chairman, and apparently the final decisions rest with him, in order that probable collision between the other two might be mediated...
Miss Canty was arraigned on 30 counts of larcency in 1951, reportedly for using stolen charge account plates. "She has been known to various people as being undependable for about ten years, but no one incident was serious enough to get her out of circulation," the Health Service official reported. Police said she is now under psychiatric observation...
...rapid development of nuclear power and the growth of radioactive stockpiles must be controlled by fool-proof regulation, two Harvard professors told the state legislative committee on public health yesterday. Harold A. Thomas, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering declared it the duty of the State Health Department to evaluate the current danger of radioactivity, and to regulate atomic substances if necessary...