Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proof of the Huggins program's value was in its-figures for infections after operations. In U.S. hospitals generally, the rate ranges up to 5%, and 2% is acceptable in the best. At Huggins it used to be 1.4%; in 15 months since the Adams-Read routine was enforced, it has dropped to .25%-two cases in 800 patients. Cracked a visiting college member: "The thinking surgeon's filter...
Princeton & Gielgud. Despite A.J.C.'s pessimism, New York last week launched an impressive "Higher Horizons" program, aimed at the heart of the city's "unequal facilities" problem. The goal: a sharp rise in the aspirations and achievements of children in "less-favored" neighborhoods. Already New York has good evidence that the goal is reachable...
...show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke...
...himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled: "I think this is a sinister conspiracy." Edwards dissolved into a nervous giggle from which neither he nor the program ever quite recovered...
Among the chief advocates of a return to the full gold standard for both the U.S. and European nations are French Economic Adviser Jacques Rueff, the architect of France's successful financial-austerity program, and Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc. and chairman of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce...