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Cryotherapy - literally, treatment by extreme cold - is particularly valuable in ophthalmology. It has already destroyed eye tumors, removed cataracts and sealed lesions in the retina. Now Dr. John Bellows of Northwestern University reports that it is highly effective in the treatment of a viral infection of the eye called herpetic keratitis...
Pacing the Brightest. Worried by this trend, Johns Hopkins University launched a new program in 1959, under which about 24 students selected annually spend two years in college, then five years of medical courses. Later, Northwestern University, Boston University and Albany Medical College began similar accelerated programs that vary somewhat in content but run just six years until internship. And, in 1963, Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College began a program that runs only five years...
...Colleges, "to give him the best medical education as fast as he can absorb it." Still, a good deal of time in the first two years is left open for such nonmedical studies as language, sociology, music and philosophy. Even in the final med-school years, accelerated students at Northwestern attend seminars on "Four Plays of Shakespeare" and "Communications Theory...
Many private colleges have balanced their books only by curtailing necessary expenditures-and their presidents are beginning to worry about whether quality is being sacrificed as well. Vice President Franklin Kreml of Northwestern admits that his university's books balance, but then adds: "By God, we have problems-we're fighting for our lives. Our faculty is too thin. We have insufficient housing for students, insufficient student aid, too small a graduate program." California's prestigious Mills College cut back its administrative staff this year. Cornell's president, James Perkins, held his 1967 deficit to about...
...discount the poster accounts added up to widespread turmoil. Some 35,000 autoworkers in Manchuria were said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations, in Inner Mongolia and in Honan, the largest wheat-growing province. Not surprisingly, the People's Daily last week warned that "anarchism" suddenly threatened to undo all the gains of the Cultural Revolution...