Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible for the riots, Banda airily dismissed them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...
...left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
Reed Army Hospital for treatment for partial paralysis, went visiting a young lady friend in Cairo. She is Nahed Hassanein, 4, daughter of a Cairo lawyer and rumored to be the young prince's intended bride. No one could say that it was love; Nahed seemed more taken by a toy animal that Mashhur brought her than by the prince himself. In any event, the tots have plenty of time to get to know each other: if they do marry, it will not be for years...
...Hypnosis may be an effective technique in controlling persistent hiccups. So say Internists Gordon Bendersky and Martin Badin in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Internal Medicine. They cite one patient who began hiccuping after hospital treatment for a coronary occlusion, failed to respond to a wide range of conventional treatments (e.g., drugs, sedation, nerve stimulation). After one session of deep hypnosis, the attacks stopped. Many doctors disregard hypnosis on the ground that it suppresses symptoms without attacking the ailment's cause (whether emotional or organic), but the authors argue otherwise. Their conclusion: Because psychological problems...
...Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years has proved him right. Architecture, while maintaining its gain in technology, is turning to Aalto's treatment of natural materials...