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...James "Doc" Counsilman, the longtime Indiana University coach who has worked with as many Olympic greats as anyone, admits that no one really knows why shaving works. He points out that research on the topic is extremely limited and difficult to carry...
Harlan (pop. 5,400) sits amid the farm land of southwest Iowa, 98 miles west of Des Moines. With its electorate divided nearly equally among Democrats, Republicans and Independents, Harlan has some fierce political battles. As Kenneth "Doc" Mueller, the town chiropractor who doubles as mayor, said about the Republican caucus, "We've got a real hot contest here. It's friend against friend...
Rose makes about $32,000 a year. "I could be making more money in the valley," he says. "But what else could I want? I think I'm just a hick at heart." Says an ancient patient, with an approving smirk: "The Doc is busier than a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs...
That kind of approval came hard. Whispered exchanges over backyard fences about the Doc's "live-in" girlfriend, a lab technician at the center, are just now dying down. Feather Falls is a company town, wholly owned by the Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Its 800 citizens live in white-trimmed, barn-red houses, paying an average $125-a-month rent. They did not know what to make of an antiwar activist like Rose who dressed in red flannel shirts, green silk dotted ties and baggy, unpressed jeans. His walrus mustache, gold-rimmed glasses and long brown hair brought to mind...
...Harry Hollis, 64, a retired carpenter, chatted at the punch bowl with Jim Miller, 48. Hollis, the day before, had held in his hands a strip of eleven color photographs taken of the inside of his stomach. Miller had recently spent a day patched to a portable EKG machine. Doc Rose's calendar showed an appendectomy first thing in the morning. It no longer seemed to matter how long it had been since his last haircut...