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...doctor shortage is unwarranted but they are afraid that some schools might lower their standards in order to get more federal aid. "If the quality of medical attention is to be preserved," states an AMA spokesman in the original hearings on the omnibus health bill before the House sub-committee," the schools must be provided with sufficient funds to correct deficiencies in their present programs before they undertake to train an increased number of students...
Then Hine and his men began as desperate and difficult a job as seamen can undertake-escape from a sunken sub. At 7:40 Hine opened the sea valves and began slowly flooding the compartment. He lowered a canvas funnel, big enough for one man to get through. At the top of the funnel was a hatch, opening outside the vessel. The bottom of the funnel was under the surface of the water in the compartment...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...
...estuary below Liverpool with a loss of 99 lives, had the Royal Navy suffered such a peacetime tragedy. Of the 79 aboard the Truculent only 15 had been saved. Ten bodies were discovered floating in the estuary on Friday. Most of the 54 missing had probably escaped from the sub and had been dragged by the tide...