Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A. relax its opposition to the practice of medicine by closed panels and groups.* Instead, it should concentrate on the quality of the care given, and the patient's freedom to choose between an independent physician and a panel. Surprisingly, the House of Delegates approved the Larson report last week with no debate...
...National Assistance Board, but it was too meager to support her four children, three of whom also suffered from TB. And so, in order to buy eggs and milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance Board, as required, Magistrate Geoffrey Rose, 69, sentenced Widow Christos to two months in jail for fraud...
...finished testifying, he refused to award him ?300 in court costs on the ground that the police had the "duty to test the matter before the courts." "Again," bristled the Sketch, "the innocent one pays." What made the laws work in such dreadful manner? Last week, in a special report by British jurists calling for a complete inquiry into the nation's laws, worried Britons got an answer...
Spare the Hops. The fact is, said the report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite...
...refused to increase the number of detection stations the U.S. had first proposed. Since then, U.S. efforts have been directed at discovering means to improve the sensitivity of detection with the stations proposed. Last week, as negotiators prepared to resume the suspended talks at Geneva, word leaked of a report submitted to President Eisenhower which concludes that U.S. seismologists have achieved considerable success. Though the report itself is still secret, one major improvement has been sacrificed by its inventors-Paul W. Pomeroy and George H. Sutton of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory...