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When Dorothy McCullough Lee took office seven years ago as Portland's first woman mayor, she brought to the office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...
...Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center, the grim subject came up for review last week at a conference on the "Management of Mass Casualties." Present: Army medical officers, representatives of federal and private health agencies. The conference consensus: nuclear warfare calls for a new definition of the old concept of battlefield treatment...
...Army's new approach, as described by Lieut. Colonel Joseph D. Goldstein, sets up a priority system that automatically gives preference to the wounded who can be returned to duty rather than to those who are closest to death. If the concept is coldblooded, it is also necessary, in the military's opinion. It is based on the assumption that there will never be enough medical personnel on the nuclear battlefronts to cope with the wounded and that even in rear areas doctors and drugs will be in desperately short supply. Accordingly, all wounded, aside from those requiring...
Quite apart from whether or not the figures were reliable, the Kinsey studies raised moral questions-because of Kinsey's very insistence that he had nothing to do with moral questions, a concept he refused to acknowledge in any case. To Kinsey anything was "biologically normal" that is done by a sizable number of people-or animals. By that logic almost nothing could be called abnormal. The notion fitted in with other thinkers' concept of quantitative morality, i.e., right and wrong are not fixed values but mere fluctuating curves on a statistical graph. Thus "The Kinsey Report" became...
Haydon concluded the lecture by saying that "the peculiar expressive quality attributed to music is an essential meaningful element in it, which the layman has difficulty in expressing discursively." He added that "the slight movement of the tone, with the 'vibrato,' is felt as life; our concept of life depends on an awareness of movement . . . therefore music should become an extremely vital part of life...