Word: helpful
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...wealth and scientific progress, the U.S. ranks below at least eleven other nations in its ability to help infants survive their first year of life. During that first twelve months, 23.8 out of every 1,000 U.S. babies die, compared with 12.6 in Sweden, 14.7 in The Netherlands. Among other nations ranking ahead of the U.S.: Denmark with 17 deaths per 1,000, Switzerland with 17.2, Japan with 18.3, and France with 21.7. Among the worst: Guatemala with...
...help more U.S. infants survive, Congress has authorized $35 million for maternity and infant care in fiscal 1968. And HEW hopes to set up and train a corps of physicians' assistants to provide more thorough care to mothers and infants in low-income areas...
...Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger's law and psychiatry division, decided to try sodium amobarbital, which, though not a truth drug, can help a patient relive a traumatic experience he is unconsciously trying to avoid. Dr. Satten also decided to put the results on video tape for a study of criminals that the clinic was in the process of making...
...upon a number of Lofting books, the movie begins when Dolittle is just a plain, ordinary people doctor. One day he learns to talk to animals, and thereafter his odd behavior tries his patients, who would like to see him committed to Her Majesty's asylum. With the help of his animal chums, he breaks away and sails on the good ship Flounder in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. On board his overloaded ark are an Irish cat-food seller (Anthony Newley), a small boy (William Dix), and a pretty admirer (Samantha Eggar). All too soon...
...Cromer, for instance, until recently governor of the Bank of England, is the new chairman of IBM United Kingdom. Dr. Frederick H. Boland, the man who as United Nations General Assembly President broke a gavel in 1960 trying to silence Nikita Khrushchev, is chairman of Esso Ireland. Though names help, such executives are less and less anxious to be figureheads. "If they want a yes-man," says Managing Director Gian-Carlo Salva of Honeywell Italy, "they can get my doorman for $100 a month...