Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Horst Eichmann, 21, Buenos Aires technician who on marriage license papers listed the occupation of his father, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, as "Lieutenant Colonel retired"; and Elvira Pummer, 21, an Argentine student whom the groom met in New York when he was a merchant seaman and she was visiting relatives; in a civil ceremony in suburban Buenos Aires to be followed by Roman Catholic rites...
...years the dangling stethoscope has been the symbol of the physician. But just how reliable a piece of equipment is it? Cardiologist Dale Groom at the Medical College of South Carolina has long suspected that many a faulty diagnosis comes from faulty equipment. To prove it, he ran a check on the 33 stethoscopes used by his Charleston colleagues at Medical College Hospital, found his suspicions confirmed. Two-thirds of the stethoscopes were defective. The doctors using them would be almost as well off with a rolled-up sheet of paper-which is just what the stethoscope was when first...
...effects of all these defects are amplified, Dr. Groom points out, by the high noise level in the average hospital, even in its examining rooms, so a doctor can hear only the louder heart murmurs. For $500 worth of soundproofing, the noise level in a typical examining room can be dropped enough to increase a doctor's sensitivity to heart murmurs about twelvefold. Provided, of course, he uses a healthy stethoscope...
...haired, carping Crichton who left his $46.80-a-week Kensington Palace post after 25 days because of the bohemian and meddlesome ways of Master Tony Armstrong-Jones, wrote some embarrassing memoirs and migrated to Florida as $300-a-week butler-host of the Dania Jai-Alai Palace; and May Groom, 50, grandmotherly shebeen queen of a London pub; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...hands of a "marriage coordinator," such as Mrs. Gertrude Doran, 54, of Los Angeles. This year Mrs. Doran ("I can do as many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording a secret until there are rumors of discord in the newlyweds...