Word: physicians
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Though the host and chairman was President William Tubman of Liberia, the man chiefly responsible for the conference was Félix Houphouet-Boigny (pronounced hoof-K>^ boyn-yee), 55, President of the flourishing Ivory Coast. A physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived...
...Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations-Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator...
Order & Self-Discipline. Whitby's inspiration, Maria Montessori, who died in 1952 at 81, was a mathematical prodigy and the first woman to get an M.D. at the University of Rome. Physician Montessori became an educator by salvaging feeble-minded children. By giving them things to touch and twist with their hands, she got their brains to function responsively. Soon the Dottoressa had supposedly moronic pupils outstripping normal children on public school examinations...
...hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling's (28?) apiece. Most Western European countries report comparable addiction rates, have similar prescription laws...
Last week's ceremony of the gold-headed cane harks back to 1689, when Dr. John Radcliffe, physician to the co-sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to the first of four eminent successors in the practice of royal medicine. Now a museum piece, it has a hollow head, which may have been used as a vinaigrette, holding aro matic salts to ward off infection. U.S. pathologists revived the tradition of the gold-headed cane...