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Instead of trying to stem the tide, Dr. Kennedy and his study colleagues concluded that the thing to do is to organize emergency care properly to produce good medicine for all concerned. A prototype of what they are looking for is the emergency pavilion opened recently by Manhattan's New York Hospital. There, change from old emergency-room procedures begins at the entrance. To keep patients with open wounds waiting on stretchers away from others with infections, there are now two emergency-room doors-one for routine cases and most adults, one for children (who have most...
Superior Subordinates. The chief U.S. objection to Diem is not so much that he is a dictator, but an inefficient dictator. The proper democratic standards of the League of Women Voters cannot be applied to a deeply war-torn country, and Mme. Nhu has a point when she defends the regime's intolerance of opposition: "We consider Communism opposition enough in wartime, but we will have open declared opposition as soon as peacetime allows." The trouble is that Diem rules not so much by firmness as by confusion; deliberate disorganization is his way of keeping possible enemies off balance. Cabinet...
...adequate if they do not induce businessmen to invest in expansion programs. Other economists who agree take their reasoning out of Keynesian scripture. Lord Keynes once wrote: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...
...earth by about 7.5 degrees of longitude per day. Out on the Navy control ship Kingsport in Lagos harbor, Nigeria, engineers sent radio signals that fired jets of hydrogen peroxide to slow Syncom down. Obediently the satellite changed the direction of its drift, began to move toward its proper position above Brazil...
Delayed Debris. Easiest to detect-provided the proper instruments are orbiting in space-are the soft X rays; they are by far the largest product of the explosion. The Vela-Hotel instrument package is expected to detect soft X rays from a one megaton explosion 200 million miles away from the earth and distinguish them from X rays from solar flares and other natural sources. Some instruments are also sensitive to gamma rays and neutrons...