Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain began in 1810. By rule, the President himself reads the declaration, or entrusts it to a high-ranking Cabinet minister. Three weeks ago, when Independence Day came around once more. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos shattered tradition. For the first time in history, he had the Grito read by a woman: Amalia de Castillo Ledon, Mexico's leading feminist and the Under Secretary of Education for Cultural Affairs...
...most pressing problem aired at Atlantic City: 2,000 of them jammed a morning-long session to discuss it. and among the scientific exhibits the biggest crowds were around a booth where the Huggins Hospital of Wolfeboro, N.H. demonstrated its exacting anti-infection routines. Here Administrator Stanley Read and Boston University's Surgeon Ralph Adams (who operates at Huggins) spelled out the steps on the road to safety...
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...
...plot turns to Thomas' youth at Cripple Creek, Colo., an offstage voice booms: "Lowell read every book in father's library." (Thomas recognizes his sister, who comes forward to kiss him.) "Father insisted you learn every rock and mineral up there in the mining camp...
...Hotel was a Kassenschlager (boxoffice hit). And to Gloria's greying, violet-eyed boss, Use ("Kuba") Kubaschewski, the payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached on the management side of the camera...