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Many doctors are talking of training more "paramedical" people who could handle administrative problems, take histories, and even, like Navy corpsmen, give shots and help in operating rooms. Computers are being used more widely to help in diagnosis, and Philco recently developed a "medi-chair" that can read a patient's pulse, check his respiration rate and skin response, and produce an electrocardiogram 20 seconds after he sits down in it. These and other processing techniques can leave the doctor more time to offer what no computer can-judgment and sympathy. As Montefiore's Dr. Cherkasky says...
...Made by the independent Bendix Home Appliances, Inc., which sold out to Avco in 1950, was in turn sold to Philco. The Bendix brand name has disappeared...
Lest G.M. steal last week's whole show, Ford announced that it will immediately begin offering rear-seat portable television sets as optional equipment on all cars. Manufactured by Ford's Philco subsidiary, the 9-in. sets will sell for $169.95, can be plugged into the cigarette lighter or powered by a battery pack that costs an additional...
...Edward G. Gibson, 29, physicist and senior researcher at Philco's Applied Research Laboratories, has flown only as a passenger. Like his three colleagues who are not qualified to fly jets, he will undergo a 55-week training course that will eventually certify him as a jet pilot. He volunteered last year after his wife, at the breakfast table, read aloud a newspaper story about NASA's new interest in science-trained spacemen...
...spots that prospective guests at the Rockefeller-owned Dorado Beach Hotel, where rates run to $75 per couple per day, were putting up a $300 deposit just for a reservation. The 160-room Flamboyan Hotel, which opened last week, is already booked through the season. And later this year, Philco, Gibson Refrigerator and the Disciples of Christ have scheduled conventions that will bring 18,000 visitors to Puerto Rico...