Word: problems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though convention draft must still be accepted by the I.C.A.O.'s general assembly next year, and ratified by each contracting country as a matter of treaty, legal experts who have been working on the problem since 1947 were delighted with the speed they have made so far, compared to the centuries in which maritime law evolved...
...jets, the answer is still unclear and the problem increasingly acute. To date, in the absence of international agreement, offenders have been prosecuted by arrangements (sometimes of questionable legality) between the individual countries involved, or have gone scot-free because no court could decide on jurisdiction...
...Myron Segal, 35, with an arm-long string of qualifications for human surgery, including the straight-to-the-heart type, got into the sideline of saving dogs' lives by accident. Where he had lived, in Montreal and Boston, heartworm was no problem. But in the South (where the worm larvae are carried by flies or mosquitoes), it afflicts many dogs. Caught soon after the animal begins to cough and wheeze, it can be treated with arsenical drugs. What interested Dr. Segal was the advanced cases, too far gone for drugs, which a vet drew to his attention...
...unchanging problem of U.S. service academies is how to cram two educations, military and civilian, into the time normally required for one. In an age of awesome weaponry and a worldwide battle of ideas, the problem is getting some new answers, notably at the new Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs-where the aim is "education, not training," the curriculum is evenly split between science and the humanities, and the students hardly touch their seats to cockpits in four years. Last week the Army and Navy turned in the same direction...
...many provocative ideas, e.g., women instructors, but agreed on little. West Point then called in a panel of consultants headed by Dr. Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, who urged 1) some elective courses, 2) more humanities and 3) more specialization in the upper classes. "The problem is where to put it in the curriculum," said Bowles, who estimates that revisions will go on gradually for the next five years...