Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does a Boston Brahmin take so well to being a ham?" a reporter inquired of Robert Grovesner Gardner. "Simple," he replied. "Some go ham. We go proscuito." As he skated off he was heard to mutter. "Ten pig wedding, five pig funeral, with five pounds of bacon cleared." Then this little proscuito went wee, wee, wee all the way home...
...secrecy-and-corruption" theme was the Administration's refusal to name the contributors who had poured at least $10 million anonymously into Republican campaign chests. The money, McGovern suggested, carried the possible taint of special favors. Eventually Common Cause, the reformist citizens' lobby founded by John Gardner, filed suit to force the G.O.P. to yield up its list of benefactors...
Hanoi recently invited a quartet of American physicians-Drs. Morris Simon, Peter Wolff and Pierce Gardner of Harvard Medical School and George Roth of San Francisco-to inspect North Viet Nam's health-care system. The four spent a week touring rural and urban facilities. They said that they were able to see nearly everything they wished, though their hosts were obviously interested in showing off their best facilities. Interviewed by TIME last week, the doctors offered this appraisal...
...turn, pass more complicated cases up to any of 26 provincial hospitals; each of these institutions has between 300 and 500 beds, and graduates 70 to 80 assistant physicians a year. At the top are the "center hospitals" of Hanoi and Haiphong, legacies of the French occupation that Gardner found "clearly recognizable as university hospitals by any standard...
...Several local physicians told Roth, "I have failed unless I keep my patients from getting ill." Most North Vietnamese make a fetish of cleanliness. Public-health teams even inspect every family's outhouse, awarding pink slips to those that pass inspection, green to those that fail. According to Gardner, families get special red slips if their outhouses are "clean enough to write poetry...