Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yablonski himself required a doctor's care after an unknown assailant nearly disabled him with a karate chop on his neck while he was campaigning last month in Springfield, Ill., a Boyle stronghold. "I was knocked unconscious," says Yablonski. "When I woke up, my arms were paralyzed. My right hand and right foot are still numb...
...smile of appreciation at an inopportune stage of contract negotiations, or the loss of aggressive edge through private preoccupation, can be a minor disaster. In show business, Siam's psychiatrist suggests, the cost of success to the aspiring individual is protective deformity. "These men and women," says the doctor, "have derangements that successfully fit them for their occupations. Cure an executive and you lower his income. Their mink-lined psychosis is one of the country's sacred mental illnesses because it helps keep the status...
With all this savvy, Bynder should be an expert in picking a doctor. He sorrowfully admits that when he applied his own rules-selecting a doctor by his educational and training qualifications-it turned out badly on his first two tries. He felt that both doctors talked down to him, when they condescended to talk at all, and treated him impersonally. After Bynder moved to Colorado, he got his doctor the way most people do-by asking a neighbor for a recommendation. This doctor is roughly 15 years older than Bynder, whereas the first two were close...
...bankers set up an estate for him by making three real estate investments, buying a portfolio of tax-free municipal bonds and long-term growth stocks, and setting up trusts for his two children. Estate advisers even thought of future grandchildren and provided trusts for them in the doctor's will. "By creating charitable trusts," says Vice Chairman Johnson, "it is possible to make money stick to a family's bones decade after decade...
Think of the benignly perplexed look in your father's tired, nine-to-five eyes when you told him over half-finished coffee and stale cigarettes that you couldn't become a doctor until you changed the world so that it was worthwhile to keep people alive...