Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis star in the screen version of Edward Albee's violently verbal shock treatment, subtly directed by Mike Nichols...
When times are good, people travel, and the prestige of uniformed people like customs officers is low. This is reflected in the travelers' treatment of us, and in spite of orders, an occasional officer will rough back at it. We are educating our officers -but who is educating the public? Courtesy is a two-way street...
...caught, the refugees often face brutal treatment at the hands of border guards. But not always. Take the skipper of a Rumanian patrol boat who recently intercepted a family of five that was trying to row across the Black Sea to Turkey. The skipper ordered the runaway family into the cutter, ordered his seamen into the rowboat, and the six roared off together toward the Turkish horizon-and freedom...
...body weight acting on such pressure points as the base of the spine. Flesh is opened right to the bone in oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies. Today, several young doctors have rediscovered and redesigned a discarded system for floating bedsores away...
...occur in long-standing heart disease patients when they exercise or are exposed to cold weather. But what is the victim to do if the pain strikes and he has forgotten his pill? A report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests an effective emergency treatment: when an attack takes place, hold the nose, close the mouth and blow...