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Aiding the Poor. The Senate Finance Committee investigators did not allege overcharging by Polansky-but in drawing attention to his unusually large payments, they seemed to be implying that the doctor was bilking the Government. Actually, Polansky, no Cadillac-and-country-club doctor, has practiced for 21 years in the grubby Lake Michigan port of Benton Harbor. His dilapidated office is above a clothing store on West Main Street. Working with him are three full-time assistants...
...Medical students are ball bearings-smooth, round, all alike and never creating friction." So said an admissions official at a New York medical school a few years ago. There are still many aspiring physicians who are politically conservative and personally conformist and whose overriding concern is the second Cadillac. This summer, however, as many of the nation's 35,000 student doctors begin summer programs or internships, there is friction aplenty, and a new, rough-edged type of student activist is very much in evidence...
...Electrical Engineer Kenneth Ongemach, for example, met his second wife Grace when she was a secretary at the company where he worked two jobs ago. Now 32, Ongemach owns a stereo set so complicated that he objects when other people try to operate it. His garage shelters a 1966 Cadillac and 1968 Pontiac Firebird with a 400-h.p. engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau Chief Joseph Kane, he may react by saying: "I want you to be happy. Here is some money...
Mobsters were overheard deploring the 1962 hand-grenade slaying of "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro in Youngstown, Ohio, because the blast also killed the victim's eleven-year...
...takes a special kind of travel writer to steer his readers to steerburgers in Italy. And Temple Fielding is special. He is a superpatriotic expatriate (witness the U.S. flag that flies from the fender of his siren-equipped Cadillac convertible) and a Swinburned sentimentalist. Although he has lived abroad for 18 years, most of them on the island of Majorca, he does not speak a foreign language. His son Dodge, a senior at New York's Hamilton College, recalls an awkward scene one day when Fielding kept telling a Spanish cab driver that he wanted to pick up some coj?...