Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until February, when three Holworthy freshmen were turned in by a friend to their senior adviser. The adviser shook them from their sleep the next morning and grilled them on their activities at an M.I.T. pot party the night before. The students were badly shaken by the third-degree treatment, but the Ad Board took no action against them. No one had actually seen them smoking...
...Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...
...Yorker: "When you find out that every other guy in the class does it and it's not all that unhealthy, you don't feel so bad any more." Homosexuality is currently a major concern of youngsters of both sexes, though most programs try to postpone extended treatment of the seamy side of sex-VD, abortion, perversion-until a positive image has been established in the youngster's mind. Girls tend to worry about the risk of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth ("Can't we just adopt a baby?" they often...
Understanding Salve. Günther, in fact, entered his career without benefit of even a high school degree. He was informally granted the title of "Doktor" in a Russian-run Czech prison camp, where, despite his own frostbite-caused amputations, he gradually took over treatment of the other German prisoners. It was a humanitarian impulse, prompted by the fact that the guards paid little attention to the prisoners' health. When he was released in 1946, Günther decided to retain the title. He added seven years to his age for credibility, said he had graduated from Prague University...
...perform an operation; as hospital director, he was able to confine his medical practice to diagnosis. But his true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...