Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of the village a jumble of caved-in roofs, dangerous dangling electric wires, burned-out shops, blackened automobiles and screaming people. Four bombs made craters 12 ft. deep and 20 ft. across within 20 yds. of the house of Dr. Rashid Haddad, the town's only physician. There, the doctor said, pointing a finger, a man got caught in the flames. His clothes and hair were on fire. He died right away; there was nothing I could do for him.'" Scott counted twelve craters, and three unexploded bombs were taken away. Eight villagers had been killed...
...woman's aberrations and the progress she is making toward recovery typify both the kind of mental illness found in China and the apparent success of Chinese treatment methods. That is the conclusion of Physician Victor Sidel, chief of the department of social medicine at New York's Montefiore Hospital, and his wife Ruth, a psychiatric social worker, who toured hospitals in mainland China for a month last fall. Writing in a recent issue of Social Policy, the Sidels describe the Chinese approach as a blend of both old and new. "The watchword of the entire enterprise," they...
...prepared by Young & Rubicam, frankly admit that "Dr Pepper" sounds like the name of a fiery patent medicine. In fact, though the drink was concocted in 1885 by a Waco, Texas, druggist and named after his physician father-in-law, it looks like a cola and tastes like a blend of cola, cherry and cream soda. The commercials stress the theme that, though many people are reluctant to try it, they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take...
...most dramatic prophecies are made by individual psychics who claim the ability to foresee the future. The 16th century physician and astrologer Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous of all time. Nostradamus knew the trick: his writings were cryptic, and interpreters can read any number of different predictions into a single passage. Modern seers like Jeane Dixon are also generally vague, and they bolster their visions by keeping an observant eye on human nature and events. Sybil Leek, for instance, predicted the likelihood of an assassination attempt on Presidential Candidate George Wallace?but many thoughtful and apprehensive laymen could have...
...that area which Newsweek delicately calls "Transition," three deaths saddened the Harvard community. A physician from California was murdered three blocks from Mather House; the former manager of the Club Casablanca was shot and killed in his own establishment; and the founder of Cahaly's Market died of cancer...