Word: staffs
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Fielding calls his staff his "family." It consists of Temple, his wife Nancy ("My Nancy"), Joe Raff (ex-managing editor of the Rome Daily American), Raff's wife Judy and Robert Bone, formerly of TIME Inc.'s Book Division. Each Fielding family member has a nickname, which
...Raff is "Tío Pepe"); Judy is "Kid Chocolate"; and Bone, naturally, is "Billy Bones." Home is headquarters, and headquarters is home: Villa Fielding, a $400,000 estate in the beach resort of Formentor, a 1½-hour drive across Majorca from Palma, the Spanish island's capital. The staff spends anywhere from two to seven months a year on the road, inspecting new hotels and restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes a sort of MI 6 command post. A Hallwag highway map of Europe replaces...
Entering the villa, reports TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, a guest senses that "he has just checked into one of the grand hotels of Europe." A staff of six stands ready to perform any service. The bar is stocked with 116 varieties of liquor, including pisco from Peru, ouzo from Greece, Indonesian arrack, Georgia moonshine from the U.S. and a 140-proof Italian pine liquor, which Fielding says is "really too strong to drink." The basement larder is packed with imported delicacies: pheasant in Burgundy jelly, smoked swordfish, Scotch grouse pâté, quail eggs, Norwegian kippers, whole lychees, albacore tuna from...
...demand has burst on a field that was totally unprepared for it. The number of beds in U.S. nursing homes has almost doubled in the past eight years to 750,000 but less than half are in homes that meet such Medicare standards as fireproofing and staff nursing services. The current additions of 90,000 beds a year can take care of only one-third of the rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal...
...heavily on nurse's aides, who get only $1.30 an hour. President Richard Rynd, 38, a onetime scrap-metal dealer, openly scoffs at a competing home that employs registered nurses rather than aides. "No wonder it loses money," says Rynd. Like most operators, Rynd has no full-time staff physicians or dietitians. Even so, his homes exceed Medicare's staffing standards, which call for only one registered nurse in a home and licensed practical nurses to take charge when she is off duty...