Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operating a city under Plan E is like a balancing act. The tension between an efficient, business-like city manager and a group of city councillors who must respond to political currents--a tension which is quite natural to begin with--can grow to unmanageable proportions unless each side keeps strictly to its own function...
...Medford went many patients who could not be helped by standard medical practice or were impatient with their slow progress. Many felt better at first. This is natural, says the Massachusetts Medical Society, because a lot of patients will respond hopefully to any change in treatment. But of nine TB cases on which the medical society's committee reported, two were maintaining improvement begun under other treatment, five were worse and two were dead. Several cancer patients had died shortly after Dr. Lincoln reported them "much improved...
Slow Start. Chicago was slow to respond. Cliff persevered, even though his wife dreaded the broadcasts so much that she "could hardly get through the program." Even the children were by no means born troupers. For two years, Linda was mostly a silent observer on the show and, off the air, referred to it as "a bunch of baloney." Says Cliff: "We just didn't press her, and she came...
Despite the tardiness and problems of the new plan, the enthusiasm of the Corporation and the alumni group heading the drive is encouraging. If the Alumni respond quickly enough, the University might still be able to restore the forgotten graduate school to its proper position and establish a center of religious education in Cambridge that will have definitive influence based on "an emphasis upon solid learning and unfettered freedom of teaching and investigation...
...least of all the cautious Dr. Farber, believes that a cure for these children's cancers is in sight. Even now, one-third of all leukemia victims fail to respond to any treatment. But Dr. Farber believes that he and his colleagues are on the right track. To keep them going, the Variety Club (composed largely of theater managers and entertainers) and the Boston Braves have raised $600,000 through radio appeals and collections in theaters and ball parks; they plan to keep on until the Jimmy Fund Building is paid for, and Jimmy's companions in misfortune...