Word: vez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vez: Toccata for Percussion (conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). Probably the most recent (1953) of its genre, this is a taut and restrained composition for six players and 18 instruments. Partly because of a recording job of rare fidelity and superior performance, partly because it is a master-crafted composition, this is a stunning record...
Tradition in the Making. For years Director Chávez, a successful practitioner himself, would take not a peso for his love and services to the institute. (The law now insists on a nominal salary.) When the ultramodern building, with its walls of white concrete and glass, was opened, it could care for 12,000 patients annually. Dr. Chávez was soon after more money, got 5,000,000 pesos to double its capacity. Now the institute treats 24,000 heart sufferers each year, 1,272 as in-patients in its 150 beds (divided equally among men, women...
...Mexico's 30 states where there were none before. After graduate studies in Mexico City, others have gone back to practice in the U.S., Europe and every Latin American republic. Thirty doctors are now taking the two-year course. "As a young nation," says Dr. Chávez, "Mexico has no tradition in scientific research." Members of his staff are doing much to remedy that, with new techniques for X-raying the heart and great vessels, advances in the use of the electrocardiograph, and a promising drug called Thedetoidin, which resembles digitalis but acts faster...
Would-be Historian Chávez has managed to write a little on Mexican history in his spare time, but, through the institute, he has done more to make it. Says he: "It is false and niggardly to believe that because we are a modest country our hospitals must be sordid and our patients must lack essentials. Yes, modern hospitals can function in Mexico...
...only a legend that Mexico City's altitude (7,800 ft.) causes heart trouble, says Dr. Chávez. Though some visitors who arrive with heart disease may feel distress and be advised to leave, natives and long-term residents are not affected. Only above 10,000 ft. does altitude trouble the healthy heart, he says...