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Trinidad's new nurse was the advance guard from a University of Colorado School of Medicine program designed to lighten the work loads of practicing physicians by training nurses to perform most of the duties of a pediatrician, and to carry medical care to the children of poverty-stricken laboring families, including many Spanish-Americans, who rarely consult a doctor except in dire emergencies. To its founder, Pediatrics Professor Henry Silver, 48, the program is immensely promising in every aspect except for the unwieldy name that has been hung on the new breed of nurses: "pediatric public-health nurse...
Clearly, there was a need to lighten the grim situation, and the need has been met in the form of the bangasa, the traditional Japanese parasol. Stores around the country are selling an improved version, made in Japan, to the specifications of U.S. Importer and Designer John Reynolds. The first few sessions under a bangasa, which is fashioned of oilpaper and bamboo, are as heady as a day in a glue factory; but the smell of varnish soon fades, and what is left is an exercise in esthetics...
...chief presidential economist and a score of their erudite underlings. These puissant men, almost all of them newcomers to the first team, are increasingly called upon by the rising pressures of international finance to negotiate with foreign dignitaries, to defend the dollar and preserve gold, while simultaneously helping to lighten the U.S. taxpayer's burden and spur the nation's economic growth. How do they operate and how are they doing...
Robert A. Pickett, varsity wrestling coach, who has been serving as assistant to the director for special assignments, will continue in his dual capacity. The appointment of Cutler, however, should lighten some of Pickett's load...
Three facts, however, will tend to lighten Governors' burdens. The Kennedy-Johnson prosperity, if it continues, will obviate the need for some tax rises and make others more palatable, as it has during the past two years. And the President's education bill will provide considerable sums to needy states and localities...