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...five new clinics, build a new 150-bed hospital and medical center in Santa Clara, and make additions to several present hospitals. "And still," sighs Dr. Garfield, "in some areas we can't accept new members because our facilities are limited." Adds Dr. Cutting: "We don't brag about the quality of care we give, but you can judge it from the fact that now when we go out to recruit doctors in the East, we get the cream of the crop...
Curses for Friends. Last week a touch of mass schizophrenia rubbed off on West Berliners. Normally they are a cynical, cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble. "Mir kann keener," they brag in the local dialect. "No one can push me around." In 17 years as a cockpit of the cold war, West Berlin has usually reacted more coolly to its recurring alarums than Washington or Whitehall. Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure...
...overwrought roles, Bette earned two Oscars, $3,000,000. and a reputation as the first U.S.-born actress to make the movie moguls respect talent and independence in a star. In an age of vamps, she became the Compleat Vixen. But in this autobiography, Bette can (and does) brag: "I brought more people into theatres than all the sexpots put together...
...William Randolph Hearst Jr., 54, titular heir to his father's empire, the new deal in San Francisco seemed something of a coup, and he could not resist a brag: after all, said Hearst, "we got a whole newspaper for practically nothing." It was certainly a cut-rate way to restore a full link to Hearst's dwindling newspaper chain-now down to twelve, including San Francisco, from a highwater mark of 26. But beyond that, the deal had other significance...
...Brag. Last week Texas Attorney General Will Wilson filed the state's first suit against one alleged pirate. At the same time, three big operators-Humble, Continental and Pan American Petroleum -entered suits totaling $1,700,000 against eight independents who, the companies charged, had stolen their oil. The Railroad Commission predicted that it might eventually find as many as 300 slanted wells pumping out $30 million worth of purloined oil a year. Said Attorney General Wilson: "This will turn out to be one of the biggest thefts in Texas history." In the land of Billie Sol Estes, that...