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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benefits. For these reasons, Britons are turning to the private alternative. When a patient pays his own bills, he can set the date for his operation and count on getting the surgeon he wants. He will recuperate not in a bustling ward but in one of the 4,398 private beds that N.H.S. sets aside in its hospitals for those willing to pay. He may also receive as many visitors as he wants; in an N.H.S. ward the limit is two at a time for an hour a day. Many privately insured patients undergo operations at the expense of N.H.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Closer to the Nixon concept of the silent majority are the promoters of National Unity Week. This move was initiated by Edmund Dombrowski, an orthopedic surgeon from Redlands, Calif., and led by Show Business Celebrities Bob Hope and Art Linkletter. They sent telegrams urging almost all of the nation's mayors and governors to proclaim last week as "National Unity Week" and to ask their citizens to fly the flag, turn on car headlights, leave house lights on all weekend, pray for U.S. prisoners of war and sign petitions stating: "We are proud to be Americans. We support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's Unsilent Supporters | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Rumors of romance have been trailing Gina Lollobrigida for months. Suggested suitors have ranged from Matador El Cordobés to Heart Surgeon Christiaan Barnard. But this one is for real, says the Italian beauty. The fortunate fellow is George S. Kaufman, a wealthy Manhattan real estate executive who met Gina in New York two months ago. No kin to the late playwright, he likes to toss off lines like "My first and greatest present to Gina is my love." In Rome, where they announced plans to marry, the pair was mobbed by the press. Photographers followed them everywhere-even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...their Scottish kilts, the sculptor has brought the understanding of a psychologist. The youngster on the left looks ahead, stolid and unafraid, but his older brother is already touched with care, and places his arm protectively around the younger. Dr. Henry Shiff, an intimate of Saint-Gaudens, was a surgeon in the Confederate Army who retired to Rome after the Civil War and there aided the sculptor when he was a struggling beginner. The refined strength of this tribute to a lifelong friendship sums up the sculptor's advice to his pupils: "Develop technique and then hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Private Skill | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...process, Catto loses his physical virginity to a whore, his philosophical virginity to his surgeon. He becomes an outraged man who takes it upon himself to lead the firing squad in order to save another officer from having to live with the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dying of the Light | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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