Word: helene
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...Physicians for Social Responsibility was a moribund organization devoted to detailing the medical consequences of nuclear war when Helen Caldicott, 43, then a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, took over as president in 1979. A zealous opponent of all things nuclear, Caldicott took her message all over the country, and her hellfire oratory soon attracted a following. Since then, membership in P.S.R. has grown from ten doctors to 11,000, and the Boston-based organization now boasts a 22-member staff, 85 chapters in 45 states and a $600,000 annual budget...
...Freshman Helen Guerin, who started working for Williams in the fall, plans to start work on an individual project in a couple of weeks. She spent first semester working in the labs and in the factory and is now learning specific techniques to enable her to get started on a project. Guerin finds Williams "really nice, dynamic, and witty at teas...
When the Navy took over the Freshman Union and Eliot House as training comters during the war. Claflin coordinated officers' programs on campus. He remained a prominent figure throughout the American war effort and met personally with Winston Churchill when the letter came to Cambridge, Clafin's wife, Helen, said yesterday...
...Judge Helen Frye of the district court in Portland, last month said the women had received lower starting salaries "because they are women," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...DIED. Helen Merrell Lynd, 85, pioneering scholar and co-author of two sociological classics, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937); in Warren, Ohio. Lynd and her late husband Robert melded anthropological and psychological insights to research the daily lives of the residents of Muncie, Ind., the first such major study of a U.S. community...