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Although the new A.M.A. resolution is a step in the right direction, it will probably be years before Negro physicians and surgeons achieve professional equality. "The conditions faced by black doctors-and patients-have improved in recent years," says Dr. Lionel Swan, a Detroit G.P. and president of the National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors...
...Royal reflects the spacious, gracious luster of Britain's princely mansions. Choreographically, the City Ballet shines best in one-act works. The Royal prefers full evening ballets in the classic tradition, like Kenneth MacMillan's fustian Romeo, and Juliet, Sir Robert Helpmann's production of Swan Lake, and Rudolph Nureyev's Nutcracker...
...been born in the U.S. instead of in Ha Dong province, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, 55, most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member...
...unity of color and form is "Forest, Sun, Birds" is reversed and turned to eery, inexplicable horror in many of the Dada and Proto-Surrealist works, and to humor in others. "Le Jeune Prince" and "The Swan is Very Peaceful," made of pasted photoengravings, combine seemingly incoherent images to acheive inexplicably creepy works, preying on irrational and subconscious resources of the observer...
...wants to put his pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts, has signed on for another movie, and this week opens on Broadway in Leda Had a Little Swan. In a dou ble role, he plays a doddering prep school headmaster and, more in character, an ultra-hippie student leader...