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Amarillo's winnings have brought him, his wife and three children the good life. He owns a comfortable brick house in Amarillo, 25 custom-tailored Western-style suits with a pair of boots to match each one, horses, cattle and three new cars, including a 1973 Mark IV Continental with license plates reading A SLIM...
...nuances of custom, dress and etiquette are preserved on those brilliantly colored and gilded scraps of paper. An 18th century rajah, ensconced on a swing, conducts an orchestra of stiffly profiled girls against the beautifully austere background of his black and white marble palace (see color page); a Mughal potentate presides over the fertility celebration of Holi, while the white-robed members of his court play at a mock battle, squirting each other with red dye from syringes...
...knows for sure how the practice of professional courtesy started. But it may well have begun with the 2,300-year-old Hippocratic oath, which exhorts physicians to regard other doctors as brothers. Modern standards reinforce the custom. The A.M.A.'s code of ethics, which urges physicians not to treat themselves or their families, holds that they should cheerfully provide care for other doctors and their dependents...
Despite the strong hold that the custom has in the medical community, a growing number of doctors would like to see it eliminated or at least curtailed. Some argue that receiving free medical care makes it awkward to be critical about the treatment if it is unsatisfactory. Others feel that friends may be unwilling to perform embarrassing but vital procedures. For example, in giving a doctor friend a general checkup, one physician failed to perform a rectal examination. The patient was later found to have inoperable cancer of the prostate...
...fantastic prices a rare model can command are attracting some hucksterish high jinks. A recent full-page ad in the New York Times offered his-and-her Phantom V Rolls-Royce limousines, custom-built by the famed James Young Coachworks, for $250,000. Five years ago, one of the cars was sold for only $8,000 to a dealer by an eccentric Maryland horse breeder who used the car as a hay wagon. The market is glutted with high-priced limousines that were supposedly once owned by Hitler. Most of these, the experts say, are fake...