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There is wide variation in the quality of testing done in laboratories within hospitals, largely as a result of the shortage of trained technicians. There is still greater variation in the backroom labs behind doctors' offices, but just how good or bad their work is, said Dr. Sencer, has never been surveyed. And in the best-regulated, best-run labs, mental obsolescence is a major problem-many doctors, as well as technicians, learned their skills 20 or more years ago, before most of the 1,000 testing procedures now known had been developed...
...statewide contest-the freelance image polishers will take over as much of the administrative work and thinking as the candidate will allow and pay for. They will handle his advertising, fund raising, research, direct mailings, speechwriting, and just about everything else short of representing his district after election. These backroom brains seldom meet the people, rely instead on elaborate research and computers to determine what the voters want to hear...
Died. Leslie L. Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after...
...possibly three parties-its own, plus a moderately vocal opposition. But as one Senator put it: "Who's crazy enough to risk his mandate by outspokenly opposing the government?" Only 117 Deputies and 18 Senators pledged themselves to the opposition-five short of the minimum. It took considerable backroom maneuvering before five selfless souls finally agreed to go over to the other side, which dubbed itself the Brazilian Democratic Movement. Said one politician: "We have our two-party system all right-the party of 'Yes,' and the party...
...Post runs a daily column of lo cal events called "Everything Is News," and apparently everything is. "A young tailor recently tried to commit suicide in his employer's backroom," reported the Post, "by strangling himself with his wife's brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride...