Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand. The open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time...
...once sickly child ("At the time, my navel was down-beamed"), Murata became fascinated as a young man with health fads, began delving into the Spartan training of the Zen Buddhist priests. By 1951, at the age of 55, he had built up a whole philosophy around the navel's influence on health. He started the Hesoten (literally, Navel Heaven) Society, swooped down upon factory and-office to proclaim that "the heaven-pointed navel receives blessings therefrom." The navel, he told his growing audiences, is "a medal of culture with which every person is born. Polish it. Value...
...often do people get sick? The U.S. Public Health Service gave an answer last week when it reported on its survey of the nation's health in the twelvemonth ended June 30, made by sending investigators to a cross-section sample of 36,000 homes in 330 areas, checking on 115,000 individuals (TIME, May 20, 1957). The findings, extended to the whole U.S. population: ¶ Illnesses and injuries severe enough to require medical attention or keep the victim at home totaled 437,886,000, an average of 2.6 for every American. ¶ The weaker sex was only slightly...
Chairman James S. Duncan resigned because of "ill health," and Colonel W. Eric Phillips, backed by 30% of the voting stock, became chairman and chief executive officer. Phillips, who had brought Thornbrough to Toronto from the Ferguson tractor division a year before, promoted him to president with authority to overhaul the company...
...University Health Service has asked that students who plan foreign travel this summer to visit 15 Holyoke St. as soon as possible for information about shots. Inoculations will be given daily from 9 to 11 a.m., and must be received at least two months before departure...