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...Eight. The trend toward reconcentration of West German industry affects more than Krupp. Eight big firms-Krupp (with Bochumer Verein), Dortmund-Horder Hlittenunion, Phoenix-Rheinrohr, Mannesmann, Hoesch Werke, Klockner-Werke, August Thyssen-Hütte, Hüttenwerk Oberhausen-control 75% of West Germany's steel production, almost 40% of German coal...
Many British doctors admired the Kingston rebels for their stand, and King's Physician Lord Horder volunteered to be one of their consultants. But others doubted whether the clock could be turned back. Said the Lancet: "Though this brave, if misguided, enterprise at Kingston may well succeed . . . though private money may be forthcoming for isolated endeavors of this sort, it will never again be found for a comprehensive hospital service...
Horse-Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 72, a onetime president of the academy, sounded an opening bugle offstage. He advised would-be visitors to "have a good stiff brandy & soda before you go. In fact, take a flask in your pocket." Lord Horder, 80, famed as King George VI's doctor and currently president of London's Cremation Society, declared himself "quite willing to stuff the canvases into the crematoria. I think I should be doing a public service." Aged showgoers hissed such epithets as "hideous!" "unutterable!" and "sacrilegious tommyrot!" One bewildered old boy in a bowler growled that...
...recent years, the royal family has not shared Victoria's suspicion of homeopathy: twelve years ago the top-drawer job of physician to the King went to genial Homeopath Sir John Weir. Weir, a white-haired, white-mustached master of the jolly bedside manner, shares honors with Lord Horder and Sir Maurice Cassidy. But in practice, Weir has been the man who actually looked after George VI and his family...
...Lord Horder, a firm opponent of socialized medicine, attacked Britain's new National Health Service Act: "We had hoped that it would be through . . . evolution, rather than through the method of revolution that is now being adopted, that Government would help us to [improve medical care...