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...could do" was in treating minor injuries. The system has also been applied in disasters by many a civilian doctor caught with more emergency cases than he could handle. "We don't talk of 'abandoning men,' " says Colonel Shaeffer. "But doctors should not be involved in three-hour operations; they should be out saving lives...
...daily schedule that amounts to a happy truce with the business of earning a living. Spanish morning begins at 10 a.m., noon comes at 2 p.m. and early afternoon at 4:30 p.m. No Spaniard who is anyone goes to work before noon. Lunch is a two-or three-hour affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state, too much interest in work is considered bad form; if business must be done, let it be concluded...
...Power to Wound. The House committee (most of whom had not read his two volumes) listened while Staff Director Richard Arens led the 41-year-old Cogley through a three-hour examination that touched on some glaring weaknesses. In one key section Cogley quotes an anonymous "New York public-relations expert who has guided more than a dozen once-blacklisted performers to the 'right people' " to get their names cleared. Cogley's strong implication: the "clearance men" are vicious operators, "with the power to wound and the power to heal the wound." Next day Counsel Arens called...
...most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev's three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents have been trying by every means to get a copy of the text. The U.S. State Department at last succeeded...
...government's anti-inflationary credit squeeze pinched sales. The worse business got, the less the B.S.A. directors and the insurance companies that hold blocks of B.S.A. stock appreciated the antics and expense accounts of their board chairman and his lady. Last week, in a fiery, three-hour meeting, they unceremoniously fired Sir Bernard not only as chairman and managing director, but even as a director...