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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers. Mostly family doctors and general surgeons, they resented being frozen out of hospital staffs. were especially incensed at not being allowed to do even straightforward surgery in teaching hospitals. The county society demanded that the new Jefferson Davis rise on the hospital's present downtown site (on Buffalo Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers got set to start a new hospital in the Medical Center, the county society blocked the move...
Riverside. A small (843 students) liberal arts college started in the desert six years ago at the site of the university's citrus experimental station 75 miles east of Los Angeles, Riverside this year sent an impressive 50% of its seniors on to graduate schools...
...them, Kerr must raid the source of supply-the faculties at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, et al., with promises of blue skies, expansion-pushed advancement and high salaries ($12,900 top). A less obvious necessity: by choice, of site, of faculty minds and of educational specialty, each uncreated campus must be given a strong, distinctive character of its own. In the meantime, new-hatched President Kerr has another problem: "It's hard enough to be installed on one campus. I have to be installed on seven...
...power, they will have to take off from deserts with no unsheltered humans for miles around. Only the crewmen in their cabins will be fully shielded. As the ship departs for space it will blast a considerable area with gamma rays, neutrons and radioactive exhaust, and a new, unpoisoned site may have to be found for the next takeoff. But designers of nuclear rockets do not worry much about this sort of thing. In Nucleonics, a group of experts tell about current projects to soar into space by atom power...
From his new apartment building, Norman Tishman could look down Wilshire Boulevard toward five 13-story Tishman office buildings and the site of a projected 22-story Tishman office building in downtown Los Angeles. Such hustling has in the last few years made Tishman the biggest single landlord in Southern California, added to the firm's reputation as a pace setter for real estate men in other cities as well...