Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina began reading a long list of rhetorical questions calling for democratic elections in Greece, etc., etc. Constantine and Anne-Marie made it inside to their...
There is just one place in the world where that is being done consistently and effectively-Northern Ireland's dour capital city of Belfast. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, Cardiologist James F. Pantridge combed the records and found that 60% of heart-attack deaths occurred within the first hour...
...Pantridge, it seemed silly to keep the intensive-care unit in the hospital. The thing to do, he reasoned, was to take both equipment and expertise to the patient as fast as possible; he installed the gear in an ambulance. Now, a telephone call to the Royal Victoria gets the mobile intensive-care unit to the patient's door promptly-in four out of five cases, within 15 minutes. Out step a doctor and a nurse, usually with two medical students, armed with the life-saving devices with which they give the most urgent emergency care...
...unit, with his heart monitored all the way. If it stops en route, the doctors can restart it, just as they would in the hospital. The unit has proved so effective that in its first 15 months of operation not one of the 312 heart patients taken to the Royal Victoria has died in transit. Once in the hospital, many-perhaps most-of them have fared better because superior treatment was started so promptly...
...buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...