Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declassified and checked. One was a Dec. 6 memorandum directing that "officials overseas, including military commanders," were to "clear all but routine statements with their departments and to refrain from direct communications on military or foreign policy with newspapers, magazines, or other publicity media." Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk hurried over from the State Department, and General Omar Bradley arrived from the Pentagon. By 9:30, the documents and statements were ready and taken over to Blair House. Harry Truman looked them over and signed...
...matter of the air threat, at least, the U.S. State Department seemed resigned to forthright action-if it was forced upon Ridgway. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk said that if Soviet planes intervene in large force, the U.S. will attack their bases in Manchuria. In contrast to previous State Department attitudes, this was somewhat startling...
...medical schools do not gear themselves to near-war conditions, the U.S. will have a dangerous doctor shortage by 1954. This warning was sounded in Chicago last week by Dr. Howard A. Rusk, adviser to the National Security Resources Board...
...there was one physician to every 850 people in the U.S. To maintain this "adequate" ratio, said Dr. Rusk, and provide for 5,000,000 men in uniform, medical education will have to be speeded up. At the present education rate, Dr. Rusk foresees a shortage of 22,000 doctors in 1954. His recommendations: i) increase the enrollment of medical schools by 15%; 2) speed up medical education by cutting vacations...
...patient, the worst ordeal of all is the indignity and discomfort of the bedpan. Nonetheless, doctors and nurses for years have stubbornly insisted on its use by the bedridden. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Manhattan Doctors Joseph Benton, Henry Brown and Howard Rusk report the results of a careful observation at Bellevue Hospital that may foreshadow the bedpan...