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...THOMAS JEFFERSON, the 2nd governor of Virginia, who ranked the education of the common people "above all things," proposed the nation's first public-school system in 1779. Last week James Lindsay Almond, 66th in the line of Virginia's Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above all things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest...
...Brazilian medical researchers, Drs. Jorge Vaitsman and Jefferson Andrade dos Santos, kept the steak furor sizzling by reporting that they had fed hormone-treated meat to animals with startling results: spayed females went into heat again, and normal males became infertile or impotent. The researchers forgot to mention how much free hormone was left in the feed. But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption. From the neck, unabsorbed pellets might slip into an edible cut and thence into an unsuspecting customer...
Reason for the delay: like many another city with an influential medical school and affiliated "teaching hospitals." Houston was rent by town-v.-gown dissent. Speaking for the gown, Baylor University and the burgeoning Texas Medical Center (130 acres. 1,750 beds), wanted the new Jefferson Davis built as part of the center. This, they insisted, is for patients' good as well as for doctors' convenience, and it is increasingly common practice in the better U.S. medical centers. The gown's view was supported by a majority of city councilors and county commissioners...
...stood a majority of the Harris County Medical Society and its top officers. Mostly family doctors and general surgeons, they resented being frozen out of hospital staffs. were especially incensed at not being allowed to do even straightforward surgery in teaching hospitals. The county society demanded that the new Jefferson Davis rise on the hospital's present downtown site (on Buffalo Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers got set to start...
...Slaked & the Dead. In Columbus, Wis., state beverage tax agents found a moonshine still in a farm milkhouse, arrested Gilbert Werner, Democratic candidate for Jefferson County coroner...