Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are U.S. doctors, largely surgeons, who have volunteered to work without pay for at least two months in the republic's pathetically few and ill-equipped general hospitals. Their patients are the 15.5 million civilians for whom there is, in effect, only one Vietnamese doctor available for every 50,000-well over 50 times worse than the physician-patient ratio...
Just about everything, according to a six-year, $100,000 study just completed by Cornell University. And the worst offender of all is that old unmentionable, the toilet. Not only has it not changed basically since plumbing began to move indoors, but it remains "the most ill-suited fixture ever designed." The most natural position, Architecture Professor Alexander Kira and his four assistants discovered after exhaustive research, is squatting. "We may think it is outrageous to squat," says Kira, "but most of the world squats. It is more natural and easier on the body...
...small-town fellow with uncomplicated tastes, Roche was born in Elgin, Ill., the son of a funeral director. His father died when he was twelve, and Roche went to work in a notions store after school and on Saturday. Unable to afford college, he took correspondence courses in accounting and economics-a practice he does not recommend for today's budding executives -and got a job with the Chicago branch of Cadillac. Soon his name was entered in G.M.'s "black book"-a loose-leaf binder with profiles of the 700 or so brightest comers in the company...
...tung has not been seen in public since last Nov. 26 when he waved a fragile goodbye to a delegation of visiting Cambodian military officers. Last week Sinologists were speculating that Mao was seriously ill...
...that roils around him is mostly post-Victorian gimcrackery, carried out in a pure period style that offers everything from mad little chases in vintage jalopies to the acrobatics of human flies, from reunions of long-lost sons and ruined fathers to the machinations of a rascally banker whose ill-gotten capital gains keep Judex awake nights. So does the banker's daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled...