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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need. Its only patients are Boston's poor--Negroes, Puerto Ricans, derelicts, and the whites who have been left behind in the South End. The quality of service is the best the government of Boston can provide. In return for medical care, Boston's medical schools are allowed to use the patients at City as teaching cases. It is a system which was set up at the turn of the century and for most of these years has been the most effective means of providing Boston with charity medicine. From the Civil War through the Depression...
Vaccines and preventive medicine have eliminated most of the "contagious diseases." Today, South Department for the most part stands empty and closed. Some of its buildings have been put to use as psychiatric and day-care centers, but South Department's basic function is gone...
...many as 35 different languages; students translate only from a learned language into their native tongue. The real problem is matching the language talent with a particular skill area, since most assignments are translations of technical articles. IGS has had great luck with the translating bureau, making use of such unusual skills as a Czechoslovakian-speaking graduate student in East European physical science with secret security clearance. A company happened to be looking for someone with just this combination of skills. A student whose parents are Hungarian but who had lived in Germany was once asked to translate a marriage...
...will not be strict classroom teaching," Miss Hudson added. "We will use movies, field trips, and arts and crafts...
...funny. The point is also that you don't look back. Ideas flash into your mind; you find truth where it is instead of lying in wait for it. You call to mind experiences and ideas and characters you've read before when the occasion makes it right to use them. You DON'T try to go back over ideas you've had before to tell a Timemagazine reporter what the message of your songs is. And when someone from Newsweek asks about your children who are no-where near, you don't try to remember all the births...