Word: docs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have to send to the track's main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward...
Humes, or "Doc," as he prefers to be called, has put forth an intriguing claim: that he has successfully developed a painless procedure to detoxify heroin and amphetamine addicts through an unusual therapy combining medical-grade hashish and massage. Humes bases the validity of his technique on some ten years of experience applying the technique in "crash pad clinics" which he ran in cities as diverse as Rome and Princeton, New Jersey. His practice is part of a one-man campaign to return cannabis to the national Pharmacopoeia, the official list of drugs sanctioned for medical uses, from which cannabis...
...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...concert with visuals or a "rockumentary," as one Boston critic described it, its techniques seem tailor-made for a new audience -people from twelve to 20. When it comes to live dramatic spectacles, the vast majority of these go only to rock concerts and would not know "Doc" Simon from Simon Gray. Bernard B. Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, which owns the Winter Garden, where the show is playing in New York, likes to think of Beatlemania as something that could help revitalize the Broadway audience rather than change the theater itself. "All of us in the last several...
...thousands of Cambodians who fled the new Phnom-Penh regime. Viet Nam's Quang Due province has been repeatedly attacked by the Khmer Rouge, while Hanoi's forces have made counterthrusts into Cambodia's Svay Rieng. Neither government seems to have clear control of Chau Doc province...