Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visited Manhattan's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Enid Haupt marveled at its superb equipment and the dedicated ingenuity of its staff. But she bemoaned the fact that children may spend several months there completely cut off from nature. Why not, she asked Director Howard A. Rusk, give them a garden to work...
Last week the institute, part of the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, dedicated the Enid A. Haupt Children's Garden-promptly dubbed "the Garden of Enid" by Dr. Rusk's staff. Around a central greenhouse are plots to be developed by patients of all conditions and sizes. (Though the garden was planned for children, adult patients looked on so wistfully that they will get to use it too.) In the greenhouse, in addition to such decorative come-ons as parrots, a cage of finches and an aquarium, is a wading pool so designed that even children in wheelchairs...
Sweeping Out. Texan Florence can now compete for loans far from home, perhaps even in New York, where, he concedes, he was born. (His father left that outlandish birthplace to open an East Texas grocery when Florence was an infant.) Raised in the hamlet of Rusk, Florence began by sweeping out the local bank for $15 monthly, at 24 became president of another tiny bank in nearby Alto and later the town's mayor. When a customer asked him to handle a $40,000 purchase of stock in Dallas' Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Florence got Guaranty to deposit...
...Howard Rusk, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at N.Y.U.'s College of Medicine. .Sc.D...
...That the foundations were responsible for some sort of "revolution" that began in the early '303. This charge was made by the committee's research director, Norman Dodd, who, says Rusk, blandly ignored the influence of the Great Depression and two world wars. "Since the foundations have been charged with some undefined responsibility for an increase in the powers and functions of government, surely it is relevant that war and depression brought about an increased exercise of power by both the executive and legislative arms of the national Government under the Constitution. Surely it is also relevant that...