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...ecstatic and uneasy. Leonard had been forced into retirement in 1982 because of a detached left retina. Fearing that he might damage his sight during the fight, scheduled for Feb. 25, the Massachusetts Boxing Commission barred Sugar Ray from entering the ring until he had been okayed by an ophthalmologist. Acting on the results of that new eye examination, Leonard last week underwent a preventive procedure to protect his right retina. This started a fresh round of speculation that he might never box again. After a second examination last week by Leonard's own doctor, however, the ex-champ...
...Ophthalmologist Randolph Whitfield Jr.: $220,000 in 1982. The award came just as an idealistic and successful program he founded was about to collapse for lack of funds. During the past eleven years, Whitfield has directed an internationally acclaimed effort to reduce avoidable blindness among tribes in rural Kenya. At Nyeri Provincial Hospital near snow-capped Mount Kenya, Whitfield trains paramedics and clinical officers in outlying districts to combat such prevalent eye diseases as glaucoma and trachoma. He also conducts pioneering surveys that trace the spread of blindness in deprived areas...
...town of General Trias. A good many of the Filipinos are medical professionals, drawn by U.S. salaries and by the provision of the 1965 immigration law that gives preference to the highly skilled. Dr. Federico Quevedo, founder of L.A.'s Confederation of Philippine-United States Organizations, is an obstetrician. Ophthalmologist Lani Quevedo, his wife, is the daughter of a doctor and a pharmacist. "The new immigration laws," explains Federico Quevedo, "take connections and credentials and money...
...whose unassuming demeanor camouflages one of the most astute minds in sport. The self-possessed, quietly dressed Arbour, who could pass for a NASA flight controller, is a former defenseman and one of the most innovative coaches in the game. It was Arbour who sent his players to an ophthalmologist to work on hand-eye coordination and hired a figure-skating coach to improve footwork. Torrey kept his team going in the face of bankruptcy for years after the Islanders' former owner, Businessman Roy Boe, overextended himself trying to finance a franchise in the National Basketball Association...
DIED. Jules Stein, 85, ophthalmologist turned show business entrepreneur who as the founder and president of the Music Corporation of America guided its growth from a small band-booking agency into a billion-dollar entertainment empire; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Stein, who helped pay his way through medical school by playing violin and saxophone, started MCA in 1924 and eventually abandoned his medical career to lead the company's expansion during the 1930s and '40s into a national booking service for top bands and Hollywood stars. MCA became known as the "octopus" for its extensive...