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...optimum general-surgeon-to-population ratio in prepaid group health plans ranges from 1 to 10,000 to 1 to 17,000.) Thus simply training more doctors will not solve the nation's medical dilemma. Instead, as an A.M.A. editorial states, medical schools should persuade more students to forgo glamour specialties like surgery in favor of those in which they can be better employed...
...throughout Indochina and new South Vietnamese elections-Muskie said that the U.S. should simply set a firm pull-out date in return for the safety of withdrawing forces and the release of American prisoners of war, leaving Saigon to work out its own accommodation with the Communists or else forgo further...
...young Manhattan lawyer, John Marshall Harlan advised a colleague elated over disproving 21 of 23 assertions made by an opposition claimant to forgo celebration. It would be better, said Harlan, to nail down the discrepancies in the remaining two points. The thoroughness of the lawyer became the hallmark of the Supreme Court Justice. Harlan's death of spinal cancer last week at age 72, following his retirement in September, ended a 16-year career as one of the most notable professional craftsmen ever to serve on the Supreme Court...
Part of the reason for American's turn-around is the cost-cutting drive of Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. Major savings resulted from his decision to forgo styling and engineering changes in 1972 models. Six of the company's lower-priced 1971 models were dropped, a move that pares its present line to a more profitable 15 models. As a result, American's operating budget has remained at its 1969 level, while sales have risen 50% since then...
...Versailles that Brezhnev jok ingly complained: "It takes me so long to go from my bedroom to the dining room that I may ask Mr. Pompidou for a vehicle." At the Trianon, Pompidou hosted a state dinner that included so many French wines and champagnes that Brezhnev had to forgo another ceremonial dinner next evening. Security was heavy. Potential troublemakers were rounded up and sent aboard a chartered jet for a paid vacation in Corsica to last the duration of Brezhnev's stay. Ten thousand flics and riot police, the largest concentration since the days of Algerian upheaval, were...