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...Francisco as the 127th president of the American Medical Association, long a monolithic organization with an extraordinary success record in defending the rights and privileges of physicians. Now many private practitioners see themselves threatened from all sides, and in his inaugural address Hoffman sounded like a man assuming command of a besieged fort...
Just to make sure all systems are go, the computer also shows the traffic flow on a war-room-type display board at the control center. There, traffic engineers can take personal command of the lights if the computer shows signs of faltering. So far, it hasn't. Already, 117 intersections have been wired into the network, and by November it will be fully operational...
...beginning of the Public Theater, which he started in 1953 in a Presbyterian church on East Sixth Street as the Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all," says Bernard Gersten, Papp's second in command, "let alone charge money for it. Romeo and Juliet? Theater? What's that?" he asks with an illustrative shrug of the shoulders. "At least we could get people in with the word 'free.' " The original budget: $750. What was at first necessity, a free show, became an idee fixe...
...command also said an OH6 observation helicopter went down Saturday eight mile's northeast of Quang Tri with one U.S. flier wounded...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the loss of three more U.S. Air Force Phantom jets over North Vietnam, with all six crewmen missing...