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Associate Professor Norman F. Ramsey, chairman of the Harvard Physics Department Cyclotron Committee, speaking first, told briefly how the cyclotron worked. He stated that the new cyclotron is able to accelerate protons to speeds about half that of light, which travels at 186,00 miles per second. The cyclotron weighs 750 tons...
First, A.M.A.'s policy-making House of Delegates turned down a proposal for a nonprofit national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called...
Receiving the medal were: Professors Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Eric G. Ball, Arlie V. Bock, Gordon M. Fair, Louis F. Fieser, Arthur B. Lamb, L. Don Leet, Stanley S. Stevens, and J. C. Street; Associate Professors Edward M. Rurcell, and Fred L. Whipple; former Associate Professor Norman F. Ramsey; Research Fellow John A. Pierce; and Research Associate John G. Gibson...
...chosen for this huge medical job is a top expert in mass medicine : Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who resigned last fall as medical director of the Veterans Administration after doing a "miracle" job of reorganization (TIME, Oct. 13). Dr. Hawley, a stocky 56, described his new job as that of "catalytic agent." One example of what he will have to tackle: coordinating 139 plans so that a national corporation can give its employees both hospital and doctor insurance in one "package." Another: working out a national average charge while keeping enough flexibility in local plans to meet varying conditions...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...