Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...
...find a charitable organization interested in keeping it open. After that, the hospital is on its own. Its 162 fulltime staffers and its 520 part-time volunteer clinicians (most of whom have sizable city practices) must either move or commute to Palo Alto or lose their Stanford affiliation. The upshot: when classes open at the university next week, 75% of the hospital's clinical staff will be new, and some doctors feel that the talent available in the suburbs is no match for what Stanford has left behind in San Francisco...
...long been an unfashionable word in most analytic circles, but last week the American Psychological Association offered 7,000 members (jammed into Cincinnati for its annual convention) a soul-searching symposium entitled "The Role of the Concept of Sin in Psychotherapy.'' Upshot: the idea of sin, at least for use .in treating the sick psyche, is making a comeback...
Presidential Remodeling. The ironic upshot is that Congress bickers impotently, and President Lleras is free to rebuild Colombia. He sent peacemaking commissions into the hinterland to patch up Liberal-Conservative feuds. Where the fighting had degenerated into nonpolitical banditry, he used troops. By last week only the coffee-rich Andean department of Caldas remained to be pacified...
...Calvin Coolidge. Son John, 52, Connecticut business-forms manufacturer, still remembered the upshot of his mother's purchase of a costly home-remedies book from a door-to-door fast talker. After leaving it on a table to leaf through later, she found penned on the flyleaf in Cal's handwriting: "Don't find anywhere in here a suggested cure for suckers...