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...coined a tag phrase, "Three long, one short," to describe their medical care: long periods of waiting for a clinic reservation, for registration and for treatment, but a short time for diagnosis. From the Red press, too, came horrifying stories that modern drugs made in China were often unfit for use-loaded with wrong ingredients and impurities such as broken glass, hair, grass or bits of iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Needle & Wormwood | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Security officers often are too inexperienced, or otherwise unfit to measure up to their responsibility. They should understand not only Communist theory and practice, but also the principles by which the U.S. governs its people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE MEANING OF SECURITY | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Massachusetts State Prison, a cramped compound of blackened granite and dilapidated brick buildings in the Charlestown section of Boston, is the oldest, most disreputable prison in the U.S. It was built in 1805, has been damned for 80 years as a verminous pesthole, unfit for human habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Does cheating the Government make a doctor unfit to treat his patients? The question had Philadelphia's suburbia split right down its Main Line last week. Center of the storm: Surgeon Clare C. Hodge, 46, who came home last September after serving three months in prison for defrauding the U.S. of $166,000 in income taxes (between 1943 and 1950, he took in unreported fees totaling $432,000, paid taxes totaling only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tax Lien | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Paris there are 16 Hots insalubres, insanitary areas (totaling 600 acres) repeatedly declared unfit for habitation, where there are no toilets, no running water, no gas or electricity, but whose crumbling buildings house 180,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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