Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of retiring from high Administration office, Assistant Labor Secretary J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins should have dropped by the White House, received a pro forma pat on the back and presidential thanks for faithful performance. But Wilkins, due to retire for "reasons of health," last week riddled the ritual: no sooner had he got his backslap and thanks from Dwight Eisenhower than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with...
...India to plead his nation's case in London, Washington, Montreal. The trip was briefly jeopardized by Desai's ascetic refusal to be inoculated or vaccinated (he opposes on moral grounds the "injection of foreign substances into the body"). Fortunately, the Western countries exempted him from usual health regulations so that he could plead his nation's ill health...
Ghosts & Coffin Carriers. On grounds that the burning of joss paper constitutes a fire hazard and that the houses are a menace to health, the Singapore city council recently decided that the houses must be moved out of the center of town. But last week the perplexed council members were finding that this was more easily decreed than done. One new site proposed by the council proved to be so near a cemetery that professional coffin carriers would have less distance to travel, and would lose revenue. In the other new location proposed by the council, prosperous citizens were complaining...
...ordained the act of love for man's procreation, and to thwart this purpose is. according to Roman Catholic doctrine, a sinful contravention of God's will. Birth control by mechanical or medicinal means is absolutely forbidden by the church, and women for whom childbearing is a health risk are enjoined to practice abstinence, either total or periodic, from sexual intercourse. It follows that Catholic doctors and nurses may not prescribe contraceptive devices, even for non-Catholic patients. But should Catholics, when they are in a position to do so, stop non-Catholic doctors from prescribing contraceptives...
...opinion, would be endangered by another pregnancy. He was stopped from doing so by his supervisor, Dr. Harvey Gollance, acting on the orders of Dr. Morris A. Jacobs (Jewish), commissioner of hospitals. New York State law specifically authorizes physicians to prescribe birth control devices or drugs if the health of patients requires it. Commissioner Jacobs refused to explain his action, but he was quickly accused of yielding to pressure from Catholics, who have consistently fought any form of birth control in New York's city hospitals...