Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underworld. The A.M.A. prefers its own fellow, Aesculapius, who restored a dead man to life and had a daughter, Hygeia, the goddess of health. Why the serpent in either case? Because the snake in mythology was the symbol of renewal and regeneration, probably because it shed its skin each year...
...Compared Khrushchev, who recently claimed that the Soviet Union would outproduce the U.S. by 1970, to "the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin" before the prey is caught. "This tiger," said Kennedy, in a punning reference to Washington's nickname for him, "has other ideas." Putting aside his campaign complaints that the U.S. could not afford a growth rate slower than Russia's, the President argued that if both countries' present rates are maintained (3½% for the U.S., 6% for the Soviet Union), then "Soviet...
...Group practice is the most efficient type in the long run." New York University's Dr. Howard A. Rusk goes farther: "Solo practice is outdated, as outdated as fee-for-service. You have to have groups. No one doctor is smart enough to know enough about the entire skin and all that it covers...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...
...Negro problem or interviewing Swedish Movie Director Ingmar Bergman, Author Baldwin writes with grace and insight. His accounts of trips to two Southern cities are balanced and perceptive. He also makes it plain that whites who try to get into the castle of the black man's skin are tolerated at best. Says Baldwin of his friend Norman Mailer: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay* cat but a little frantic...