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...destroyed so that they could devote full time to serving "people's medical establishments." The result: in eight months 813 doctors, 2,393 teachers and about 200 professors-including the rector of the University of Jena (TIME, Sept. 1)-fled to the West. At Leipzig's biggest X-ray clinic, only seven radiologists remained out of an original staff of 27; at East Berlin's biggest hospital, only eleven gynecologists were left of a staff...
...clubs going is the yearly assessment to cover the losses. Others, like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens, we do not know this to be officially true...
...earth is fairly weak near the geomagnetic equator (where magnetic deflection is greatest), and strongest near the magnetic poles. At 1,200 miles above South America, the radiation hit Explorer IV at a heavy ten roentgens an hour-enough to give the human space traveler his top weekly X-ray dosage in about two minutes. And one Geiger counter inside the satellite, though coated with lead 1/16 in. thick, recorded 60% as many impacts as its unshielded mate, which in turn reported radiation almost as intense as that reported by two scintillation counters outside the vehicle. Nobody knows where this...
...more pay than does a trained brain. A city laborer, the San Francisco Examiner reported in a roundup last week, earns about $465 a month. By contrast, librarians (with five years of training required) get $390-$450 a month, registered nurses $350-$410, bacteriological lab assistants $31 $-$360, X-ray technicians $345-$400, dietitians...
...combatting something deep in the soul of the nation," said the Rev. William Sangster, head of home missions. "For this deep malady, we need some deep X-ray therapy that we have not found." Agnosticism, he complained, is flourishing in Britain in place of the great religious revival for which Methodists so fervently hoped. Last year the number of new Methodist church members (current membership: 739,000) fell to the lowest level in 13 years; some 100,000 children stopped attending Sunday schools. Every year, for the last twelve years, the total number of ministers has declined; it fell...