Word: smithing
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Monday, August 26 Opening sessions of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago. NBC will colorcast the convention proceedings from start to finish with Huntley, Brinkley, McGee, Vanocur, Chancellor and Newman reporting; CBS will do the same, with Cronkite leading Analysts Mudd and Sevareid, Reporters Wallace and Reasoner. Smith and Lawrence will report on ABC's nightly 9:30-11 roundup, with Buckley and Vidal commenting...
NONFICTION 1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
This was the road that Dr. Robert Smith, 30, followed from a Mississippi hamlet to Howard. It led him back almost to where he had started. One of twelve children, Smith graduated from all-Negro Tougaloo College in 1953. The state then subsidized Smith at Howard by paying the school $1,500 a year for his tuition and making him a loan of $5,000, "forgivable" at the rate of $1,000 for each year he spends practicing in the state. Says Smith: "Mississippi would rather underwrite the education of Negroes out of state than let them into...
...loan presented Smith with a crisis of conscience. By taking it, he was yielding to the system that he detests. "But," he says, "if I hadn't taken it, I wouldn't be a doctor today and wouldn't be serving the Negroes of Mississippi." Serving them he is, in the heart of Jackson's Negro community of about 60,000, at an average rate of 40 patients a day. Most practitioners consider 20 patients a day a heavy load. "When you see 40," says Smith, "you obviously can't dispense the kind of medical...
Lost to Surgery. Smith has active staff privileges at one county and one private hospital, and limited privileges at Mississippi Baptist, meaning that he is restricted to the hospital's Green Annex, reserved for Negroes. He says he has to swallow hard every time he sends a patient there. It is still more frustrating if his patient needs surgery, for Smith is allowed to practice only in the annex, and of course the operating rooms are in the main building. Thus he has to turn his patient over to white doctors...