Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
Paris to Buchenwald. Dassault, the son of a Paris physician, studied at France's top technical schools. He sold his first propeller design to the War Ministry, and set up a small aircraft factory. Even after France nationalized its aviation industry in 1936, he was permitted to keep a small plant at Saint-Cloud, where he turned out variable-pitch propellers until France fell in World War II. Because he was a Jew and refused to make aircraft parts for the Nazis, he was arrested and eventually taken to Buchenwald...
...Part of the President's renewed, buoyancy unquestionably stemmed from the clean bill of health he had got from his doctors. The day before the President started his Georgia vacation a panel of six doctors gave a press conference a full report on his latest physical examination. Presidential Physician Major General Howard Snyder led off with a flood of technical talk: "This cardiovascular examination revealed no physical abnormalities other than those associated with the scar in the heart muscle," said he. The two-centimeter (about ¾-in.) scar was "well-healed," blood pressure has been stable, circulation excellent...
...Andrew W. Contratto, physician to the Hygiene Department, explained that is impossible to provide care for women patients identical to that for men, and said, "We intend to use the Infirmary only for short-term diseases for women, and then only in unusual circumstances...
...Walter Reed Army Hospital, and for more than an hour submitted to a battery of tests-blood chemistry, fluoroscope, X ray and electrocardiogram. (Newsmen dutifully noted that he was grim-faced as he entered the hospital, smiling as he emerged.) This week, armed with the joint conclusions of Presidential Physician Howard Snyder and three cardiac experts (including Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White), the President was scheduled to slip off with Mamie for a week's vacation at Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Soon after his return to Washington, he is expected to answer the question that...