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Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Richard Burton, James Mason in The Desert Rats...
...where does this leave Richard Burton? Well, for his work in the same picture, he made $250,000. And if that seems grim enough, there is something even grimmer. In a burst of generosity some years ago, Liz gave her husband a 50% cut of her proceeds from the picture. So Eddie Fisher, who is still her husband, will make perhaps 14 times as much from Cleopatra as Richard Burton. He'll be rolling in money, but that...
...high cost of general hospitals has already led to direct federal intervention through construction grants under the Hill-Burton Act of 1946. During its first 15 years the Act provided roughly one-quarter of all money spent in the United States on hospital construction, attempting to equalize bed-patient ratios through out the country. Its vast dimensions have stimulated the development of quality standards in all phases of hospital equipment and care...
...funds provided by the Hill-Burton Act have combined with insurance payments to change the fundamental relationship of doctors to hospital administrators. In the past, doctors regarded the hospital as their workshop and considered themselves autonomous from the hospital administrator, who often was a poorly qualified layman. The importance of the hospital today as a center for preventive medicine, research, and education has made the doctor's workshop much more of a public concern. And at some points the narrow interests of physicians may have to be subordinated to the needs of the community...