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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
That sly old cynic Andrei Vishinsky has treated the current U.N. Assembly to honeyed words mixed with his usual vinegary fare. Russia's Foreign Minister recently deplored what he called the U.S. "get-tough" policy toward the Communist world. He sighed for a get-soft line: "Why not go back to the old wartime . . . cooperation . . .? Then things may change . . . We should get together and see what can be done...
...coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into the very arteries of Scotland's being." Then she pulled the lever that set the Loch Sloy power plant in operation. As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled...
...reappraisal of the therapeutic use of penicillin and a thorough rationalization of every dose-and amount-should be undertaken," said Captain Oilman. "We must abandon the thought current in some quarters that this antibiotic is a cure-all or that its prophylactic use is justified. Not only is the routine use before all operations, dental as well as surgical, unsound, but the facility with which it is administered for almost every complaint . . . needs to be halted...
...current Journal of Pediatrics, an outspoken young (33) Chicago dentist, Dr. Touro M. Graber, charges that early surgery often does more harm than good. Dr. Graber's basic argument: physicians generally have tended to ignore the fact that the upper and lower jaws do not grow at the same rate...