Word: publica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S.-Brazilian organization called Servico Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service...
...transportation is changing all that. Last week a Panair do Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...Giacobini heads the Partido Salud Publica, 34 members strong. In black undertaker suit, wing collar and black tie, black gloves and derby, he appears at football games, swimming pools, public markets and parks, unstraps his portable platform and harangues for votes in Argentina's forthcoming Presidential elections. Onetime member of the Buenos Aires Municipal Council, he introduced some 4,000 projects, never missed talking at least one hour at every session...
Last month Dr. Giacobini wrote to the Pope, asking him "in my capacity as founder and president of the Partido Salud Publica" to end the war. He has not received an answer, but he is convinced that Archbishop Spellman's visit to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22) was closely related to his letter. Elated by this success, Dr. Giacobini decided last week to address similar epistles to President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, offering himself as Mediator for World...
...school efficiency expert last week -they are not even up to date. The expert, trim, white-haired Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University's Teachers College, after a three-year study of 344 schools, reported his findings in American Schools in Transition (Bureau of Publica tions, Teachers College...