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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great value if this country were to elect a Catholic President to disprove all the fallacies surrounding the now ambiguous "he." But as much as I would like to see a Catholic become President, I say that I would not vote for Kennedy. I have many reasons, the main one being his stand on the labor question...
...males will come flocking," said a Munich researcher. "Females, of course, will continue to lay their eggs, but they will be unfertilized. The main advantage over DDT is that no resistant strains are likely to emerge. Whoever heard of a male animal becoming immune...
...retirement income for its own. the A.M.A. hewed to its traditional individual-enterprise line. Though majorities of physicians polled in several states have voted in favor of bringing doctors under compulsory social security coverage, the House of Delegates voted down a Pennsylvania resolution favoring it. Main argument: doctors who kept on practicing after the age of 65 could not collect benefits until they quit, or until 72; doctors should be able to make better personal plans for retirement...
With driving intensity and singleness of purpose, Surgeon DeBakey worked all day every day and half the night (since 1948 at Houston's Baylor University hospitals) on mechanical defects of blood vessels, especially the aorta. This great vessel, the body's main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials...
...third of the Soviet Union is officially closed to tourists (the U.S. has retaliated by keeping an equal area closed to Russians), but the traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma...