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...week, 75 workers had signed the petition. Francis P. Keady, an X-ray technician and one of the workers who had originally contacted SDS, presented it to Murray Fertel, Executive Director of Jewish Memorial. Fertel immediately fired Keady and granted none of his demands...
...action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...penalties were nominal: suspended sentences of 30 days in jail, plus fines of $200 for Stevenson and $50 for Whittaker. More significant was the loss of a test case: Stevenson had hoped to help ease the doctor shortage by establishing the right of a well-trained technician to assist in surgery...
...occasions from October 1965 to July 1966. At those times he was called upon to operate a cranial drill and a flexible saw used to remove patches of skull. What were Whittaker's qualifications to do such work? After attending hospital corps school and a naval operating-room technicians' school, Whittaker testified, he had served not only as a "circulating corpsman" in operating rooms but also as "first assistant" during at least 125 operations. Then he spent 2½ years as a surgical technician at the University of California Medical Center...
...modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back home; a competent technician could ask higher wages within half a day's bus ride in almost any direction. State government was hampered at every level by an anachronistic constitution enacted in 1874, which, as Arkansans point out, was "two years before Custer's last stand...