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Clustered in the next echelon are Marvin Watson, who helps Valenti in scheduling the presidential day, Jake Jacobsen, a troubleshooter and sometime legislative liaison man who aspires to succeed O'Brien as chief White House representative on Capitol Hill, and Lee White, a legal adviser, who may also depart soon...
Some readers will depart these pages vowing to die rather than set foot in another hospital. Many of Dr. X's glimpses of what goes on there are indeed horrifying. An obstetrician funks a difficult delivery, leaving it up to the intern, who has never presided over any birth at all, much less a critical one. An addicted nurse steals morphine from her patients. A surgeon carelessly ties off the wrong artery in a simple operation; gangrene sets in and the patient not only loses her leg but is charged $3,000 in hospitalization and extra surgery charges resulting...
...their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...
...discotheque idea began in Paris about five years ago and quickly spread through Europe. New York Francophiles soon founded similar night spots, such as Shepheard's, Arthur, and II Mil, which all depart from discotheque tradition by featuring eacophonous bands along with the usual LP platters. La Discotheque Nicole is closer to the French version; it is small, has only recorded music, and keeps down the sound level to permit conversation...
Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...