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DIED. Dr. Robert Collier Page, 69, founding chairman of the Occupational Health Institute and pioneer advocate of company-paid preventive medicine for blue-collar workers; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. While studying dying miners in the grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive...
...more than 1,000 newcomers now arrive in the U.S. every day. Since American birth rates are declining, that influx from abroad represents about one-fifth of the nation's annual increase in population. The new immigrants are changing local styles, too. Miami's Eighth Street is now Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of bustling Little Havana
...Night. It was a childhood to be reckoned with. "I think I went to 14 schools in all," says Liza, by this time lying on the floor alternately bumming cigarettes and hugging her dog, Ocho. "We started moving around a lot from one house to another. Usually we moved in the night. That was probably because Mama was so broke and maybe she owed money to landlords. Anyway, every time we moved I'd find myself in a different school. Private if we could afford it, public if we couldn't." As a result, "I hated school...
...cortisone and ACTH, administering them to rheumatoid arthritics with such spectacular results (one woman left her hospital bed to go on a shopping spree) that he won the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine, sharing it with two biochemists who had isolated the hormones; of pneumonia and diabetic coma; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...
...Ocho Rios, midway along the coast, the hotels tend toward a more Miamistyle opulence. And near Port Antonio at the island's eastern end, where the vegetation is lushly tropical from the rainfall trapped by the towering Blue Mountains, is the picturesque San San section, where the Aga Khan's Uncle Sadruddin has pitched a tent, along with Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen and a collection of Swedish shipping moguls...