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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...
Outhouse Poetry. Like their Chinese counterparts, North Vietnamese authorities stress prevention of disease through sanitation. 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...
...year. She kissed me at the door, admired my sheepskin coat as she took it into her bedroom, and led me into the livingroom of her small apartment overlooking the corner of Concord and Garden Streets. (One of the first things she did after moving in was personally to inspect the statue of the soldier built in the triangle between those two streets--if she was going to be looking at him every day, she wanted to know who he was.) She had made us a lunch consisting of toasted English muffins, lamp chops bought at Sage...
...showed the Chinese the contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion that ended up in a Chinatown sportswear shop. There it was the agent's turn to inspect the wares: a cardboard box packed with 14 plastic bags containing 20 Ibs. of pure No. 4 white heroin from Southeast Asia. Street value: $10 million...
...Moose could continue discriminating as a private club. Two weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, considering a different claim, ruled that since the lodge allowed guests and rented its facilities to other organizations, it was a public accommodation under state law and so must stop discriminating after all. To inspect the arena of this battle, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth visited Lodge 107 last week. His report...