Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trimble finally got permission to work on his own time going over congressional payrolls. His efforts began paying off Jan. 5, when the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain broke his detailed story charging that "at least one of every five lawmakers has some kinfolk on his staff...
Trimble is now spending 18 hours a day digging beneath the surface of Capitol Hill, where a House committee last week blandly approved a bill to let each member add a $14,162.04 aide to his staff...
...sanatorium, hospital and institution. Two miles out of New Canaan, its 50 acres bisected by the Silver Mine River, it looks like any New England resort hotel. It has no barred windows or guards, no locked doors for its capacity (usually filled) of 60 patients. Among its fulltime staff of 75, the seven doctors and four registered nurses never wear white coats. The aim: gracious country living without country-club frills...
...week's end, with a load of data from set interviews and continuous observation, Dr. Terhune and staff tell the executive what he needs. In many cases, advice (rooted in the confidence of long talks) on what to do and not to do may be enough. For emotional problems of moderate severity, Dr. Terhune prescribes what he calls "mental hygiene re-education." It may run to a few weeks or months of psychotherapy. There is never a written report to the executive's company, and Dr. Terhune passes as much responsibility as possible to the family doctor...
Economy Model. Moscow's Professor Mikhail Petrovich Chumakov tried this material on 30,000 children. He was delighted with its simplicity. His staff had to put only one droplet in a teaspoonful of syrup, and the kids swallowed it-thus cutting out the need for hypodermic needles, which are expensive and can be dangerous. Then there was the economy: one-hundredth of the injection dose. Perhaps most important: live virus taken by mouth multiplies in the digestive tract, quickly triggers development of antibodies and protects the whole system. The Russians argue that the killed form, injected into the bloodstream...