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...district. Doctors can usually choose the districts in which they want to practice. A doctor may practice as a specialist, after passing stiff examinations, and thereby get a slightly higher income from the government. He may practice privately (only 10% do) after his four or six-hour daily stint for the state. Education of doctors and nurses is below U. S. par, but improving. Pure research is encouraged...
Late in March Rivera squared off at his bare white wall in the RCA lobby. Tickets were issued to watch him do his daily stint. Art students, businessmen and Communists bought tickets as Rivera slowly spread paint down over the wall in a characteristic composition made up of huge, chunky units. Rockefeller Center workmen came free. Painting directly on wet plaster as in all true fresco, Rivera put on the wall the essentials of his submitted and approved sketches. Nelson Rockefeller came too to watch, told Rivera he liked the fresco. On May Day Rivera came to the head...
...tersely, in coherent English. For the term of candidacy is primarily concerned with inculcating in prospective editors the desire and ability to write cogently, and with providing them the opportunity to form opinions on matters pertaining to the University, to education in general, and to the outside world. The stint of one editorial a day, though at first repugnant to the customary undergraduate ideas of the ways and means of leisure, is far from difficult after the candidate has found what is expected of him and where best to look for his subjects...
...will stint applause, or damn with faint praise this much needed measure. Other plans for meeting the situation had been suggested, but probably none would have met with as full a measure of approbation from the student body at large, or from those employed, even though they might have saved Harvard a considerable sum. The single question of the fate of those not cared for by this scheme remains. These positions have been assigned to House residents alone, and there must be a number of men in the graduate schools and undergraduates living, for the sake of economy, in private...
...Teachers belong to the highest type of human being. . . ." They often stint themselves in order to support small brothers and sisters. (By adroit planning a teacher can dress well on a small outlay...