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Framed along with the medical diploma and the other parchments of pro fessional achievement on the wall of Dr. Alan R. Grain's Washington, D.C., office hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...Frondizi regime still infested top ranks of government, public opinion was misinformed, and scores of "economic criminals" were conspiring to bilk Argentina of its patrimony. To clean up the country, Rauch proposed a firmer military control-in other words, more military officers in the Cabinet-and suggested a ten-point program of decrees (from a light watch on the estates of public officials to stricter controls on business and financial institu tions), partial news censorship, and emergency measures to prosecute grafters and wrongdoers...
...varsity basketball team threw away a ten-point half-time lead but poured in six points in the final minute of play to whip weak Brown 62-58 in Providence last night. The victory vaults the Crimson into undisputed possession of fifth place in the Ivy League and should give the team a needed psychological boost for its game against Yale tonight in New Haven...
...CITY PLANNER, issuing a ten-point policy directive asking the heads of federal agencies to cooperate with regional planners on the future development for Washington...
Scranton is plugging a ten-point "program of recovery," which ranges from new state programs for community colleges, commuter transportation and middle-income housing to "unceasing effort to improve the industrial climate of Pennsylvania to entice more industries and thus more jobs." He promises that state agencies will help "eliminate corrupt city government in Philadelphia." On the touchy patronage issue, Scranton pledges that he will push to expand civil service. With characteristic bluntness he adds: "I don't know of a single county leader in either party who shares my views on this." He maintains that he can save...