Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the mix: most of the candidates favor a strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom from arbitrary arrest and freedom of speech; all members are vehemently nationalist and antiCommunist. Some of the more prominent facces: >Dr. Dang Van Sung, 51, a physician turned editor of Saigon's influential daily Chinh Luan ("The Right Opinion"), who is popular among intellectuals and the Hoa Hao, and could probably be elected assembly chairman if he chose. "He may turn out to be the strong minority opposition leader," says one observer...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
...Your statement, "Flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots" [Aug. 5] is misleading. Physicians with better-than-average incomes have high-performance aircraft, fly more than other groups, and therefore have greater exposure to accidents. Even so, members of the Flying Physicians Association, numbering 2,000 (about half the known U.S. and Canadian physician pilots), have an accident rate approximately the same as the average. We believe that our requirements of certification of higher aviation skills, such as basic instrument ability as a requirement for membership renewal, result...
...Flying Physician Little Falls...
...small-time stock buyer, though uneasy, has refused to panic. Instead, he is playing the game with considerable cool. Says a Milwaukee schoolteacher: "Most of the people I know who invest have job security. We're only losing profits now. I'm not going to chicken out." Says Boston Physician Dennis Slone: "When I look around and see the demands of the people for goods, I feel there is nothing to worry about. Anyone who drops out of the market now is making a real mistake." Says St. Louis Chemicals Executive Brooks Bernhardt, 51: "My wife...