Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which were resounding defeats for the Reds. Historian Bernard Fall suggested recently that these defeats may well be considered by future historians "the First Battle of the Marne of the Vietnamese War," recollecting that "the Battle of the Marne in September 1914 halted the seemingly irresistible onslaught of the Kaiser and thus foreclosed the possibility of an immediate end of the war through the collapse of the French...
...mean that much to Francis. Raised in a Manhattan orphanage with nary a clue to the identity of his parents, he has developed a delusion that he is the unacknowledged child of a British peer, entitled to the Order of the Garter, or perhaps even the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm and Queen Mary...
...Kaiser multiphasic checkup con sists of 20 computer-oriented tests given by a team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
Speed in no way compromises thor oughness. Dr. Morris Collen, coordina tor of the program, reports that fully half of the 40,000 patients seen annually have "clinically significant abnormali ties, conditions which the physicians will want to treat." Kaiser's cost is approx imately $25 per patient, and the health-plan members pay virtually nothing...
Married. Prince Michael of Prussia. 26, great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Jutta Joren, 24. a secretary he met in Manhattan while training as a Pan American Airways sales representative; in a civil ceremony in Dusseldorf, to be followed this week by a Lutheran ceremony at the Hohenzollern family estates near Bremen...