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Last week, for most of California's 2,200 osteopaths, the feud was over. Leaders of the state osteopathic association and the state medical society signed an agreement, expected to be ratified next month, merging the two organizations. Under the terms of the agreement, the Los Angeles College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons will be converted into a medical school, and the state's 63 osteopathic hospitals* will be free to convert to medical hospitals. Osteopaths will be given the option of exchanging their D.O. for an M.D., with the aim of discontinuing future licensing of D.O.s...
...first time in her life, and she is learning to read. A railroad has been built to our village, and my parents, to their wonder, can ride this wheeled chariot all the way to Hanoi." From this dedicated core Ho Chi Minh draws the guerrillas to fight his blood feud against South Viet...
...long-smoldering feud between Texas' Murchison brothers and the management of one of the nation's biggest holding companies flamed last week. To the 23,000 stockholders of Alleghany Corp., which controls both the New York Central Railroad and Investors Diversified Services (the biggest U.S. mutual fund group), went 17-page proxy solicitations from Clint Murchison Jr. and his brother John, in an open bid for control of Alleghany. The Murchisons charged that Alleghany Chairman Allan P. Kirby has let Alleghany's investment policy stagnate (except for an unsuccessful stock-buying race with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
...bitter feud between Pan Am and Grace began as a marriage of convenience in 1929. To avoid potentially harmful competition, Juan Trippe's struggling young airline and the giant shipping company organized Panagra as part of a plan to carve up Latin America into regional spheres, of commerce. Panagra's flights were confined to the west coast of South America, where the Grace shipping interests were strongly entrenched; the rest of the continent was dealt to Pan Am. Traffic from the U.S. to western South America was fed to Panagra by Pan Am carriers from...
John Canaday deplores most abstract expressionist art-and that opinion fuels a bitter feud. For Canaday is art news editor of the U.S.'s leading newspaper, the New York Times, and abstract expressionism is the U.S.'s most important school of art. Last week the feud, smoldering for months, broke into flame...