Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning: go slow on bills designed to cure the recession with heavy spending; the Democrats are trying to spend too much too soon. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled...
...chief of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (TIME, May 6), to a meeting of New England hospital officials. "It is the most fantastically expensive item in our civilization," and especially in the U.S., it has luxury aspects that should be pruned. Many patients are overcharged, e.g., for special nursing that may not be necessary. Insisting that needed economies must not lower the quality of care, Dr. Moore suggested: "Doctors and hospitals can help to reduce the cost of care by making it as efficient as possible, at the same time as Blue Cross and the insurance companies raise...
...been growing in Lutheranism during the past decade. For generations, most U.S. Lutherans were ethnically centered, holding their services in German or Dutch or Scandinavian, and seeing to it that their children grew in the faith and folkways of their fathers. This exclusive attitude put Lutheranism in a special position among U.S. Protestants. It protected the Lutheran churches from the excessive emotion in the wave of revivalism that swept America in the late 19th century. As for the theological liberalism of the early 20th century, it barely touched the Lutherans at all. But the Lutherans' position apart...
...SPECIAL RADIO -TELEVISION AWARD: NBC for its special programs beamed over U.S. educational stations and its Know Your Schools project...
Three observers who were worried about the state of U.S. education long before Russia's metal moons made the subject generally popular offered some observations last week about what is wrong. The three: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and special assistant to the President for science and technology; Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. father of the atomic submarine; and Dr. Merle Antony Tuve, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...