Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, after a two-hour conference with Dwight Eisenhower and Loy Henderson, John Foster Dulles read out a statement, quoting the President, specifically warning Syria not to commit aggression or engage in "subversive activities directed toward the overthrow of the duly constituted governments" of her Arab neighbors. If Syria does this, warned the President of the U.S., she will face the military-economic force of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...Public education expenditures are more than double those in 1953. During the past year, 1,353 primary schools were built and 270,000 illiterate adults were taught to read and write...
...this division between the physical and the psychological view that ran through most of the 700 papers read at the congress. Psychiatry's grand old man and Zurich's first citizen, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, 82, was on hand to define the issue. Stooped but hale and quick-witted, Jung reiterated his longstanding position on the psychological side of the fence. His view: the emotional disturbance comes first and causes the chemical disturbances that accompany schizophrenia...
Cops gulped as they read: "I saw the seamy underside of the police department . . . I got to know policemen who drank on duty, loafed on duty . . . I saw how saloonkeepers get parking tickets fixed . . . I heard my fellow policemen boast openly of freeloading on liquor and food -'living on the badge' they called it . . . Time and again I heard the smart-alec patrolman brag about his 'take,' repeating his motto: 'Never take a cigar that ain't wrapped in green...
...Unrealistic. When physicians cannot afford extra help, nurses, technicians, receptionists and doctors' wives are pressed into service to roll back the paper tide. The physician himself must read all the reports and sign them, must give technical information that only he can supply (some insurance companies even require reports in the doctor's own handwriting). Says an Atlanta surgeon: "I could spend a whole day right now, just dictating answers to this stack of forms here on my desk. But if I did that, how am I going to care for the people over at the hospital waiting...