Word: waldemar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the wholesale, often haphazard use of antimicrobial drugs (sulfas and antibiotics), easy-to-kill bacteria are becoming rarer, while resistant strains, especially of Staph. aureus, are rampant. As Boston's Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter told the surgeons: "These drugs kill the sissies among the bacteria and leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people...
...Opera in 1934 when Lehar was 63, the work has to do with a Carmen-like doxy in an unidentified southern fishing town who heaps misery on herself and her one true love. The gaudily exotic score boasts some sweetly melting arias, and the performance (with Hilde Gueden and Waldemar Kmentt as principals) is expert, but for the most part Giuditta is not much more than a barefoot Merry Widow...
...Appointed able Foreign Service Careerist John D. Jernegan, a Middle East expert and minister-counselor of mission in Rome since 1955, as ambassador to revolutionary Iraq, replacing Waldemar J. Gallman, who had resigned...
...Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
...villains in a plot against your patients," a crusading Boston surgeon told a gathering of colleagues in Washington last week. Continued Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter: "Because of your negligence, 90% of the nation's hospitals are a menace to health. You should clean up the operating rooms . . . Lax operation of a hospital assures maximal multiplication of pathogenic monsters [i.e., germs]. The result is a carefully managed system that inoculates patients with virulent bacteria along with enough foreign bodies to guarantee disaster...