Word: crashes
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Though doctors collectively get proportionately less of the patient's dollar, Harris reports that they have become the highest paid professionals in the U.S. Before the 1929 crash, those in private practice averaged $5,300 a year; they took a cut to $4,000 during the Depression. They had won back most of this loss by the time of Pearl Harbor, and have climbed steadily ever since then to a current national average of $25,000 or more (far more than such other professionals as dentists and lawyers...
DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Patient in Room 601," a documentary about 23-year-old Lita Levine and her fight for life after being severely burned in a 1958 plane crash...
...Ivone Kirkpatrick, 67, British diplomat and Foreign Office expert on Germany, a High Commissioner in West Germany from 1950 to 1953, best known as the man sent hurrying to Scotland in 1941 to identify and interrogate Rudolf Hess after Hitler's Deputy Führer flew from Berlin (crash-landing his ME-110 fighter) in a mad attempt to negotiate peace with England; of a brain tumor; in Celbridge, Ireland...
...like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum, a religious effigy, and the weapon used to eliminate the faithful guard, a poisoned dart, were both made...
...ambassador to the Organization of American States (1961-63), an ebullient, debonair politician who spearheaded a reform movement to bring trade, industry and an honest police force to his city, but could never quite carry his messages to Louisiana at large in three unsuccessful campaigns for Governor; in the crash of a chartered plane carrying six others, including his seven-year-old son, Randy; near Quajolota, Mexico...