Word: panels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many pews may be empty in England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one handicap: pulpit-trained preachers and priests often show up as poor performers on the TV screen...
Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...explosive issue fizzled deceptively. Climaxing 3½ years of study, a 15-man commission headed by North Dakota's Dr. Leonard W. Larson, chairman of the board of trustees, recommended last December that the A.M.A. relax its opposition to the practice of medicine by closed panels and groups.* Instead, it should concentrate on the quality of the care given, and the patient's freedom to choose between an independent physician and a panel. Surprisingly, the House of Delegates approved the Larson report last week with no debate...
...newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...
THERMOELECTRIC heat pumps, with no moving parts, to air condition submarines are being designed for Navy by Carrier Corp. under $170,250 study contract. Work is major step toward future motorless, wall-panel-type air conditioners and heaters in private homes...