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...also painfully obvious that the astounding increase in technology has forced the physician into being somewhat more of a scientist than a holder of hands. The modern doctor spends half of his life with his patients, a quarter of his life trying to keep abreast of the enormous increase in medical knowledge, and the rest of the time trying to get some sleep. Instead of devoting two pages to an enumeration of the known ills of modern medicine, why not use them to discuss how the problem might be solved...
...deprivation is only partly the doctor's fault. For the very reason that medical knowledge is expanding in quantum leaps, a modern doctor must spend much more time simply keeping abreast of his profession, thus has less time for individual patients. Moreover, his new skills can best be employed not in the home, but in the office or hospital, where equipment is available. With growing affluence and insurance, more and more people can afford what he has to offer. Since the overall ratio of doctors to population has remained roughly the same-one doctor for 760 people-the result...
...turn the masses off and on at will, the demonstration was transformed into a peaceful, highly organized march. The 15,000 faithful that assembled at the institute left behind their plastic-bag gas masks and clubs and grenades. As they marched out to demonstrate, burly Boy Scouts ranged themselves abreast as a vanguard, staves held waist high, to keep the crowd in line. In two short hours, the promenade was over, as smoothly orchestrated in its tranquillity as the previous week's mobs had been in their mayhem...
Five-Story Tail. Of these, 23 will be passenger planes, each capable of carrying up to 490 customers in seats nine or ten abreast split by two aisles; in addition, there will be eight private compartments in a raised section in the forward part of the plane. The remaining two planes ordered by Pan Am will be freighters, with capacities of 214,000 lbs. as against the 76,400-lb. limit of the airline's current Boeing-made cargo aircraft. Scheduled for delivery starting in September 1969, the 747 will cruise at 45,000 ft. at some 625 m.p.h...
...apparent reason was killed by a sniper. Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through the streets in prowl cars or twelve abreast on foot. After four hours, a tenuous calm was restored. The toll: two dead, 26 injured, 34 arrested, 15 buildings damaged...