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...many ways, it is unfortunate that the committee consists exclusively of members of Harvard's academic family, for studies as broad as Doty's must be will prompt many to reflect that education may be too important to be entrusted to scholars. But this thought is relevant because it measures the Doty Committee's obligations, not as a criticism before the fact...
...immediate booster. But if he has never had toxoid, or is unconscious and cannot answer questions, the doctor has a difficult choice. He can give toxoid, which takes a while to build up immunity and may work too slowly. Or he can give tetanus antitoxin, which confers brief but prompt immunity. Trouble is, the antitoxin, almost always prepared from the blood of horses, carries a heavy risk of serum sickness, which can be as deadly as tetanus...
Twenty states, most of them in the South, now have right-to-work laws. Maynard T. Kennedy, professor of Business Administration, doubted that the decision would prompt the spread of the laws to industrialized northern states...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s fifth biennial convention-the last big Big Labor get-together before the '64 campaign. After reviewing New Frontier accomplishments, Kennedy launched into an impassioned plea for the tax bill's immediate enactment-something that he had despaired of the day before. With prompt passage of the tax bill, he said, "we will be sailing by next April on the, winds of the longest and strongest'' peacetime expansion in our nation's economic history...
...require the United States to reconsider also its long-range policy in the area. If alterations are necessary they can probably be accomplished less painfully at the beginning of relations with a new regime rather than later, when both sides will have settled again into the old molds. A prompt re-evaluation is all the more imperative, since the U.S. will now be collaborating with a more respectable regime, which would be much more difficult to abandon honorably than the Ngos. As long as Diem and his friends lorded over the country, the White House could always have asserted...