Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While under investigation, Cippico gave his word not to leave a suite in the Vatican, and a papal gendarme was placed at his door to bar strangers. One evening last week Cippico asked his guard to help him move some books from one room to another. Loading the obliging gendarme's arms with volumes, Cippico held open the door. When the guard entered, Cippico closed the door and locked it. He slipped into the shadows of Saint Peter's and out into the Piazza di San Pietro, where a waiting automobile whisked him off into the Roman night...
...Communists said little about Communism, less about Russia. With help from an unexpected quarter, they stirred Up anticlericalism in answer to the Church's anti-Communist campaign. But above all, the Communists talked about the high cost of living. In Rome's working class street, Via Gesú e Maria, a Communist tailor kept his shop open late at night. "The government was pledged to combat inflation," he told neighbors, "yet artichokes cost 70 lire each-artichokes alia Romano, have become artichokes alia signorile [of the rich...
...Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...
Medicine's Job? Doctors must get better training in psychosomatic medicine, learn to recognize the serious biological effects of social sickness. A new kind of "group practice" would help them understand psychosocial medicine; the group should include doctors, social workers, nurses, clerks to take care of records, representatives of government health & welfare departments, perhaps of industry. The group might decide that while the symptoms were the patient's, the causes were society's, and recommend changes...
...third postwar trip to Europe, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture...