Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inform your readers that contrary to your correspondent's assertions, the Prime Minister did not take a day off from his governmental duties shortly before the Haifa summit with President Sadat; he was not driven to a "secluded laboratory" or to any other location for a physical checkup, and he has never met with a team of "three non-Israeli neurological experts." He could, therefore, never have been examined by them. In particular, the Prime Minister never met with a Dr. Jack Fein. Hence, no such team could have given any medical advice to the Prime Minister...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization received a thorough physical and psychological checkup last week and was found to be less than robust at age 30. The general diagnosis: flabby nuclear muscle and a creeping inferiority complex. The prognosis: satisfactory recovery only if it undertakes strenuous, and expensive, new body building...
...hampered by the fact that Hong Kong immigration officials inexplicably make a practice of registering refugees by number rather than by name. Even after a refugee is finally located and sponsored by a relative or a refugee agency in the U.S., he can wait for weeks for a medical checkup. Since the U.S. has failed to dispatch a team of public health physicians, refugees have to be examined by local doctors who must work them into their crowded appointment schedules...
PUBLIC BROADCASTING is fast approaching puberty. Born again in 1967 from the recommendations--which eventually became law--of the original Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, the fledgling system staggered as it grew. Almost two years ago, the doctors decided the system needed a checkup. The results of that long-overdue examination--labelled A Public Trust--are not encouraging. Carnegie II, as it has been called, would never win any awards for bedside manner. Its conclusions are brutally frank...
...Marrakesh, as in Aswan, the deposed monarch appeared to be slowly adjusting to events. He still seemed to suffer periods of uncertainty and depression, but insisted that he was "relaxed and well" and in no need of a major medical checkup. Between scheduled activities, he read newspapers, listened to radio reports and took long walks...