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...many parts of society. Many hospital maternity wards, opened or expanded in anticipation of a further population explosion, now have nearly empty nurseries. Last year maternity wards in New York's Nassau County hospitals had an occupancy rate of only 51%. Two New York City hospitals, Doctors and LeRoy, have already shut down their maternity wards, and another plans to do so. Three Los Angeles hospitals are considering similar action following the closing of Good Samaritan. Pediatric wards are also suffering from a shortage of patients, and six New York City hospitals have requested clearance to close them, while...
Ford is not inheriting any regulars from last year's 3-7-2 squad except for seniors Mead, Art Faden, and Leroy Thompson. Among the 34 people reporting to camp, however, were juniors, Ralph Booth, Geoffrey Hargadon, Steve Hines, who saw considerable action last season as substitutes...
...toward socially involved films. It was also one of the best. It is a story of a veteran forced into prison by his circumstances and the abuse he suffers at the hands of society. The film is a little dated, but remains compelling. Paul Muni stars in this Mervin LeRoy effort...
...recent poll in Atlanta, for instance, showed that the city's blacks oppose busing by a 2-to-1 margin. Says Mrs. Leroy Woodward, an Atlanta school-board member: "I've always thought it was insulting to blacks to say that they would do better if they could just sit next to a white child at school. What we need are better schools...
Well they might. Earlier, LeRoy persuaded Hardwicke to put up $1.5 million for half ownership of a Manhattan café converted from a theater that LeRoy had acquired so he could be a writer, director and producer. He wanted to transform the cafe into a restaurant where he would "create the sense of spectacle." He did, and Maxwell's Plum is now the paragon of Manhattan's singles spots, earning a tidy 13% profit on a yearly gross of about $4.5 million, and delivering LeRoy a salary of more than $200,000. That leaves the 39-year...