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...time is ripe for a revaluation of medical educational concepts and techniques, with a concern for possible economies of instructional costs. Professional organizations have not been hospitable to outside suggestions about how this should be done. Medical deans and medical schools have not yet demonstrated that their operations are adequately economical and efficient, although some work is under way to explore improvements and economies in medical educational practices...
...Cuba in the Spanish-American War and lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill ("By the way, I then killed a Spaniard myself with the pistol . . . which was raked up from the Maine"), to return to the U.S. as a military hero and, finally, at the ripe old age of 40, to be elected governor of New York. ("Some belated Fenians came up to sound me as to what my attitude would be if they attempted an invasion of Canada. I explained . . . that I should promptly call out the militia and clap them all in jail...
...documented reports aimed to show "the policy of the protectorate in its statistics." Some of the figures: only 7% of Moroccan children go to school; only 9% of top administrators are Moroccans. Juin curtly dismissed the council. Said he: "When the general peace is menaced, the time is not ripe for interior agitation...
Both were run by virtually the same management, with almost identical investment policies; it was wasteful, said Randolph, to keep two sets of books, hold separate meetings, etc. Randolph had long wanted to merge the two; at last the time seemed ripe. To stockholders went a complicated plan for a stock swap. Part of Randolph's bait was an $8.70 dividend on one class of Selected Industries stock (the convertible) should the merger be approved...
...however, while the time is ripe, could not the free world strike a bargain with the Nationalist Chinese. Could they not guarantee the territorial integrity of his island for now, and for the years to come in return for these concessions? First, that Chiang Kai-Shek agree to consider himself ruler of Formosa, and only Formosa, giving up all his dreams to stage a comeback on the continent. (In view of the thoroughness with which he was hustled off the Chinese mainland by the Communists these dreams are somewhat fantastic.) And second, that he agree to use his troops...