Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folk hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child's godmother, the doctor forevermore...
...Clemente Award, given annually to the major league player who has done distinguished community service. The honor is bestowed for a player's public acts-heading fund drives and the like. But private and unpublicized deeds most distinguish Carew's style. He regularly travels to the Mayo Clinic to visit patients. Once he had a run-in with a traffic cop who pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit his father, who was dying of cancer. Carew went. After an emotional bedside scene with...
...open 7:15 a.m. to 1 a.m. Run-of-the-mill shopping, except for well-stocked bookstore, sourdough-bread booths and flower store that ships California-grown daisies anywhere. Beauty salon (wash and cut, $12), two barbershops with showers ($2.25), saunas ($3.50), clothes pressing ($2 a suit). Animal shelter. Clinic with seven doctors open 24 hr., two fully equipped mini-ambulances, 250-bed hospital, morgue and pressroom ready for use in disaster. Overall: designed with people in mind...
Meanwhile, the 55,039 who jammed Yankee Stadium for the third straight day saw the top four men in the New York batting order put on a hitting clinic for their fans...
Maybe you should remember this the next time a doctor at the walk-in clinic tells you to quit belly-aching...