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...Players Championship (TPC) there this year. Last spring, Alexander was heading for a phenomenal sub-80 round on this monster only to have his dream thwarted by darkness on the 18th tee. This time, the Michigan state champion plans an early tee-off in hopes of breaking the 80 barrier...
Doctors concede that this kind of fraternal "charity" hardly seems appropriate any longer for a group with such high incomes. But a more telling criticism of professional courtesy is that it can be a barrier to good medical care. For one thing, the donor physician often feels exploited and overburdened. Says Pediatrician Lee Bass, Wolfson's partner: "There is a subtle difference in how you feel about people who get free care in your office and those who pay." Also, doctors and their families frequently have misgivings about taking up another doctor's time. The result: quick, inadequate...
...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...
This was Hackett's first serious attempt since early-season to break the nine-minute barrier (he went 9:05 in December), and the sophomore admitted afterwards to being "slightly disappointed...
...nuclear holocaust if the West did not get out of Berlin, where it had had a legal right to be since 1945. Beneath the bluster, however, Khrushchev was behaving cautiously. At first, he resisted East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's request to build the Wall. When the barrier was erected, Western leaders reacted with relief. They had been expecting much worse...