Word: ophthalmologists
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Skirts & Sheaths. Merrie's mother was once a fashion model, and her father is an ophthalmologist. The family lives in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia's social ionosphere. "I don't need to prove I'm sophisticated by wearing a bikini," says Merrie, "if it's in bad taste...
...least one student a day" since the beginning of the term has been seeking help at the Health Services because of injury or discomfort from wearing lenses, according to Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy, ophthalmologist to the Health Services...
...Drug Administration had reassuring news last week for the 5,000,000 contact-lens wearers in the U.S., many of whom were fearful that something in the plastic might damage their eyes or even cause blindness. The scare originated a month ago with a report from a Boston ophthalmologist that he had tracked down 14 cases of blindness or near blindness among contact wearers and several hundred more of eye damage, all within three years. There was speculation that the damage might have come from impurities such as free acid in the methyl methacrylate plastic (akin to Plexiglas) used...
Among the likely Democratic candidates: U.S. Representative Dale Alford, an ophthalmologist who became a career segregationist; ex-Governor (1949-53) Sid McMath, a moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller...
...first time, medical researchers have found a drug that cures a disease caused by a true virus. Ophthalmologist Herbert E. Kaufman told a Manhattan symposium on virology last week that he has used the drug in 46 cases of a common infection of the eyes called herpetic keratoconjunctivitis. More than half of Dr. Kaufman's patients got such prompt benefit that their eyes escaped permanent damage, and in more severe cases the damage was limited...