Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely, though not so often, as our Secretary of State. In May, for instance, he began a six week trip through Poland and Yugoslavia as part of a cultural exchange program, returned to the U.S. in June, and spent the remainder of the summer in South America. (A journal which he kept on this trip to Europe will be published next month by the University Press.) And just Tuesday he returned from a five day trip to Rhodes and some talks with leaders of the British Labor Party and economists from various underdeveloped countries...
...American college, yet the campus still has a distinctively African orientation. It shows up in little ways: the beautiful mahogany and ebony furniture, the stylized Yoruba art work in the Protestant and Catholic chapels. And, more important, it is evident in students' concerns. The Beacon, a UCI journal, features a book review of J.C. Amamoo's The New Ghana and an editorial on the recent conference of the eight independent African states, concluding with a stern protest to the French government should it carry out its proposal to test atomic weapons in the Sahara...
...counter the magnesium, they finally tried tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA) on the strength of a report in a Swedish journal that TEA would remove magnesium-caused neuromuscular blocks in other parts of the body. Coupled with an electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
With Gray's own lucid structure and fine woodcuts by his hospital colleague, Dr. Henry Vandyke Carter, the first 750-page (3 Ibs. 4 oz.) edition was a medical bestseller. The British Medical Journal quickly called it "The manual of anatomy," and it soon outsold the much-higher-priced standard work. Quain's Anatomical Plates...
...victims demands the most skeptical scrutiny. Many such claims add up to cruel quackery, and others, by reputable men of medicine, have proved to be overoptimistic. Last week physicians had a tough job: evaluating a treatment proposed by a brilliant Canadian surgeon and reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal...