Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Worst?" [Jan. 15]: boo, hiss to the American Dream! My husband and I now find that even though we have obtained that hallowed ground called "the upper middle class" we are hard put to have meat on the table three times a week. We put off visits to the doctor. A family vacation nowadays is a joke. Most depressing is watching Congress continue to set up programs that we finance but cannot use because we "make too much money." So please tell us: What is the American Dream...
...water, and from private citizens who contend that the state has no business telling parents how to care for their children. With these contributions, the Greens hope to get by while they are in Mexico. "There is such a loving atmosphere here at the clinic," says Gerald Green. "The doctor, after giving us the test results, tells us, 'We'll be praying with you.' You just don't find that...
...Rome the Shah was despondent. A gynecologist provided by the CIA was giving a course of injections to his wife, Soroya, in a vain attempt to reverse her childlessness. He badgered her so often to make love with her husband that she finally lost her temper. "Doctor," she snapped, "all I'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs. I'll see the Shah goes on making omelettes." The news of the successful coup cheered the Shah over this contretemps, however, and he returned triumphantly to Iran...
...relevancy are encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled." Unfortunately, even Lee has yet to invent the hero who can overpower that archvillain called the TV programmer...
Major problems remain. A first is cost: the alarm sells for $1,500; parent training sessions, social worker home visits and a 24-hour hospital team of doctor, nurse and alarm repairman can bring the final tab to a daunting $4,000. Moreover, many apnea-prone babies die from a first attack, before parents are aware of the need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure...