Word: vez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer and historian. Though he seemed to be drifting when he entered medical school, it was there that he found his life work: "Heart study was my passion." Last week, celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, 57, ducked his head modestly as topflight cardiologists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe blew him compliments...
...member of the audience called Chávez' institute "the heart capital of the world." Baltimore's famed Pediatrician Helen Taussig, whose researches made possible the "blue baby" operation, said: "It is [Chávez] who made this a great institute ... a Mecca for all young people who want to study the heart. We can rejoice when we have the opportunity to come here ourselves...
Triple Ambition. In the Mexico of 1920, heart disease was as merciless a killer as elsewhere-perhaps worse, because the country had one of the world's highest rates of rheumatic fever.* Young Dr. Chávez wangled scholarships so that he could study the heart in Paris. Vienna and Brussels. Back home, he started a cardiology service in Mexico City's- General Hospital and gathered around him a group of equally dedicated physicians. In the early '30s, they got the idea for "an institute that would be at once a modern hospital for heart patients...
...team was ready: all it needed was the institute. Dr. Chávez, who seems to know everybody of influence in Mexican business and politics, promoted 600,000 pesos (then $166,560) from private donors, 1,500,000 pesos from the government. Then he spent eight years directing the building of the institute. Each room, he insisted, must be as comfortable as in a modern luxury hotel. Its surgeries glittered with the world's best equipment. Its motto: Amor scientiaque insermant cordi (Let love and science serve the heart...
...exhibit of Mexican art to be shown in Paris this May. After a good, hard look at The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace, the government announced that it would exhibit the picture in Mexico, but would not send it to Paris. Ruled Carlos Chávez, director of government-sponsored fine-arts projects: "It contains grave political charges against various foreign nations...