Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy once called Roy Cohn indispensable in the Senate's effort to ferret out Communists -"as indispensable." the Senator said, "as I am." Last week, however, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. Joe McCarthy, chairman, dispensed with the services of the indispensable Mr. Cohn...
Time for a Stand. McCarthy's troubles of the week were not confined to his staff. Vermont's persistent Republican Senator Ralph Flanders was determined that the Senate take a stand on "the problem presented by the junior Senator from Wisconsin." Realizing that he lacked the votes to remove McCarthy from committee chairmanship, Flanders changed his motion to a simple vote of censure...
This week the Senate is scheduled to vote on the Flanders motion: "Resolved, that the conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin ... is unbecoming a member of the United States Senate, is contrary to senatorial traditions, and tends to bring the Senate into disrepute, and such conduct is hereby condemned...
...team-were put to a greater test than usual. A call came in to the center's switchboard asking for a doctor to attend a Puerto Rican woman a half-hour's drive away. Quickly, a delivery crew assembled: Spanish-born Dr. Esteban Martin Martin. University of Wisconsin Medical Student Marvin Hinke and two visiting nurses. They picked up their black bags and set out in Dr. Martin's car. When it broke down (Martin's diagnosis: "Vascular ailment of the gas line"), the crew hiked the rest of the way to the patient...
...turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave. Wisconsin Blue Cross and the Milwaukee Medical Society's Surgical Care (a Blue Shield plan) announced new "Catastrophic Policies" to take over where ordinary medical-insurance contracts end. Designed to finance treatment of drawn-out illnesses (including mental and nervous disorders), the new policies will pay 75% of the total...