Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road, at work, at play and in the home-are now the leading cause of death among Americans aged 1 to 37. According to the National Research Council, accidents killed a total of 107,000 Americans last year, temporarily or permanently disabled 10.5 million, caused injury requiring treatment to 52 million. Some 49,000 of the deaths were caused by auto accidents. The bill, in wage losses, medical expenses and insurance settlements, was $18 billion...
...reduce the heavy toll, the Council recommended that national groups be set up to help prevent accidents, improve emergency treatment, and conduct research into such fields as shock and trauma...
...week rumors buzzed that the phantom was dying. As usual, Multimillionaire Industrialist Howard Hughes, 60, remained shrouded in a private world, expensively and almost pathologically guarded from outsiders. The stories said that Hughes, suffering from emphysema and Addison's disease, went to Boston for treatment four months ago, ensconced himself in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where he rented the entire fifth floor and posted armed guards to keep newsmen away. Was the tenant really Hughes? Reporters picked up a trail when they heard that Hughes was spirited off by private train to Las Vegas and carried on a stretcher...
...effect two years ago, since it became possible for anyone to set up tables with a minimum of bureaucratic difficulty in certain agreed-upon places, and since the union was considered off-limits to everyone, government agencies included. Striking students are correct in demanding that this equity of treatment be restored...
...girl. By adulthood, says Dr. Benjamin, the crossover of emotion and thought may be so deeply ingrained that "true transsexuals feel that they belong to the other sex, they want to be and function as members of the opposite sex, not only to appear as such." Psychiatric treatment, including long-continued analysis, has proved virtually worthless to patients who do not want to be changed emotionally, leading Dr. Benjamin to conclude: "Since the mind of the transsexual cannot be adjusted to the body, it is logical and justifiable to attempt the opposite, to adjust the body to the mind...