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Medical Mecca. The qualifying examinations had their origin in the postwar emergence of the U.S. as the world's medical mecca. Foreign physicians wanted to study in the U.S.-just as U.S. doctors, before World War II, wanted to study in Germany. In theory, hiring foreign doctors for U.S. hospitals is mutually advantageous: the hospitals flesh out their staffs to adequate size; foreign physicians add to their medical skills and go back to improve medical care in their native lands. The program won the support of both the U.S. and foreign governments...
...Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high court to interpret the law it is supposed to uphold. According to Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, the doctrine of nullification embraced by the South since the origin of the states' rights argument "is no different legally from the right of interposition which Louisiana now claims...
...prices because they cannot be brought into the U.S., which still maintains a total embargo on all goods from Red China. The antiques (many of dubious antiquity) are often bought by British and Italian dealers, shipped to Europe, and then imported into the U.S. without needing a "certificate of origin...
...effort to find the smell's origin, the Department of Buildings and Grounds recently completed a study of Lamont's ventilation system. Results of the investigation were sent yesterday in a letter to John J. Gallen, Senior Assistant in the Lamont Library...
Candor for Reporters. The new mood had its origin last May when a column by New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston challenged the honesty of the Nixon "background conferences," which let Nixon say things anonymously that he would be most reluctant to say in public, e.g., criticism of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Angry, Nixon suspended the background sessions, and the Nixon camp took on the wary formality that still prevails...