Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the aplomb and discretion of an admiral, Ensign Brown held his first and only press conference to describe his four year voyage. "As far as the silent treatment is concerned, I can't think of any case of anyone doing anything since I've been here. If you mean do the fellows speak to me-well, for the most part most of them do." As for the officers and civilian personnel, "they couldn't have been more impartial...
...Chambers written a play while he was at Columbia ... a play which was an offensive treatment of Jesus Christ? "Yes -highly offensive." Had he left college then? "Yes-after some very just criticism." Had Chambers gotten back by lying to a dean? Said the witness: "That was a long time...
Another young farmer named Derek Naves has a promising stubble after four months of treatment. Derek lives in Vars-seveld, 75 miles from Een. Once a week he gets up at 4 o'clock and starts his arduous pilgrimage-an hour by bike, an hour by bus, two hours by train, another half-hour by bus, and then a last 20 minutes on the bike. Twenty-nine bald and bewigged girls, taking van Rooijen's treatments, have sought out household jobs in Een. As a result Een, unlike the rest of Holland, has no servant shortage...
...Rooijen charges 350 guilders ($132) for a course of treatments. He does not claim success in every case; he promises to refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look...
...revolution, Panama has two comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...