Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wheat for Hides. If building a skyscraper to camouflage an oil well seems unusual, it is only in keeping with the career of Armand Hammer, 67, a bouncy man with some unusual ideas. The son of a Bronx physician, Hammer himself went to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. While there, he and an older brother purchased for peanuts a large supply of Government-owned pharmaceutical products that had become surplus with the end of World War I. In 1921, at the age of 23, Hammer became an M.D.-and, by selling his pharmaceuticals on a rising market...
...common. They could not even get along among themselves. Things looked up for a while after Dr. Frances O. Kelsey became a heroine for keeping thalidomide off the U.S. market, and after Dr. Joseph F. Sadusk Jr., with a good record as a medical educator and a practicing physician, took over as head of FDA's Bureau of Medicine (TIME, March 13, 1964). But now the Kelsey faction is warring on Sadusk, who is also the target of Representative Lawrence H. Fountain's Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee...
...quality of the world from which the Great War came"-whose guns she set thundering memorably in Guns of August two years ago. Granddaughter of a onetime ambassador to Turkey, niece of former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Radcliffe graduate ('33) and wife of a Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord...
...plot sounds like any conventional saga of Red Star-crossed lovers who meet, part, and meet again at all the crossroads of history. But if this be soap opera-and in some measure it is-the suds are set into motion by an impressive cast. As the poet-physician Zhivago, Sharif embodies both wounded sensibility and the simple, stubborn faith that a man need not sell heart and soul to prove his love of country. Julie Christie, frankly passionate and vulnerable as Lara, proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger, who makes his beauty...
...play football, where "he is closely watched and professional assistance is close at hand." But in Viet Nam, where "the life and safety of his comrades could depend on Namath's performing his duties under extremely adverse conditions," the Army could not guarantee that a trainer or physician would always be around...