Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire & Charm. The daughter of a physician and a suffragette, Sylvia Field was born in Patchogue, N.Y., had her pretty head turned toward economics in 1929 when the stock market collapse wiped out her family's money. Then a 16-year-old freshman at Manhattan's Hunter College, she switched from English to economics to find out why, graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa...
...insurgents possessed a kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
...every ten became pregnant either before marriage or after divorce. Almost 18 out of 20 such pregnancies ended in abortion. How and where the women got the abortions was not always clear, but the vast majority (17 out of 20) told interviewers that they had it done by "a physician." Of 1.044 abortions reported, eleven out of 20 were obtained by married women...
...Timanus' own figures were shocking, he had others that were more so: he personally knew a physician who had done, he estimated, 40,000 abortions in 50 years. One of the main problems of the conference was to find out how many abortions are performed annually in the U.S. Commonly accepted figures run from 200,000 to 1,200,000. In the end, the experts could only agree that the number must be astronomical...
Died. Dr. Khan Sahib, 76, founder and leader of Pakistan's ruling Republican Party, onetime (1955-57) Chief Minister of the province of West Pakistan, a physician who became a member of the Indian National Congress, worked with Nehru and Gandhi for Indian independence; of three bayonet wounds delivered by an assassin; in Lahore, Pakistan...