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...estate and to own the tallest office building in the capital city of San José, along with various restaurants, a coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Cristóbal S.A., a chief interest of Former President José ("Pepe") Figueres, a popular figure who is Vesco's leading backer in Costa Rica...
Since the clinic opened, Dr. Bal (as patients call him) has treated more than 10,000 patients. He has a special empathy with the poor. "Look at those pallid faces," he exclaims while examining two sniffling youngsters. Turning to their mother, he asks: "Did I put them on vitamins last time, Mommy? What about iron?" If a youngster becomes ill when the clinic is closed, he asks the parents to bring the child to his house. Though his main emphasis is on the ailing, he does not balk at providing free school physicals and shots for youngsters who cannot afford...
...Bal the most satisfying tribute is from his own patients, who eagerly do anything they can to please him -scrubbing floors, washing windows, even baking casseroles for his lunch. In fact, when a woman patient recently sued him for malpractice (because of a scar left by the successful treatment of a facial malignancy), other patients were incensed. "Around here," said one, "suing Dr. Bal is like suing God." Balthazar, who refuses to carry malpractice insurance, easily won his case...
Married. John S. Knight, 81, editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, who in 1968 won a Pulitzer Prize for his incisive column, "The Editor's Notebook"; and Elizabeth Good Augustus, 74, wealthy breeder of thoroughbreds; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bal Harbour...
...Violins Du Bal...