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...wins, and a doctors' strike is plainly one of them. Last week, refusing to practice under a socialized medical insurance plan enacted by the Saskatchewan legislature, two-thirds of the province's 900 doctors locked up their offices and went off on vacation. Rather than bow to the government, the doctors gave free emergency care at 34 hospitals -but left behind only one practicing physician for every 3,000 citizens...
Died. Rex Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...supporters, monarchists of any ilk-for 31 the formal celebration of the feast day of his patron saint, San Juan Bautista. Every year the ritual is the same. As the visitors enter Villa Giralda's big, comfortable drawing room, they press toward Don Juan and his wife to bow or curtsy. They greet the man who may one day be their ruler...
...They cleaned the infected wound and put Douma in an oxygen tent (because the nerve center that controls breathing is especially susceptible to tetanus poison). But it seemed to be too late. During the next 24 hours, Douma suffered several convulsions and muscle spasms. His back arched like a bow...