Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Margaret R. Ball, his chief lab technician, as coauthor. Despite its unimpressive size and its coldly scientific title, the book became a surgical landmark. And it was only a beginning. What Moore calls his "big blue book" appeared in 1959. Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient, a six-pound omnibus of 1,011 pages, would be monument enough for most men; it is a basic and irreplaceable text for modern surgeons. But Moore is still enlarging the dimensions of his monument. W. B. Saunders Co. has just published The Body Cell Mass and Its Supporting Environment (helpfully subtitled "Body Composition...
...education bill is getting smothered in the Congress. The Administration passed the word two weeks ago to Congressional supporters to abandon their efforts to extricate Rep. Edith Green's aid-to-higher-education bill from the House Rules Committee, and instead to push for college aid through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary schools would doom it once more...
...real tragedy of the aid-to-education fight, however, is not the impending defeat of the omnibus bill, but the President's refusal ever to concede it a chance of victory. Faced with a continuing national crisis in education, he has consistently eschewed the one approach which might prod the Congress into doing something about...
...addition, the committee during this session will vote on the omnibus education bill and the Home Town Youth Corps bill, a plan that would set up volunteers groups of teenagers to work in their own neighborhoods...
...National Student Association (NSA) has called on its member schools to study the proposals contained in President Kennedy's Omnibus education bill, and other crucial questions facing higher education...