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...study, sponsored by the U.S. government's Public Health Service Division of Radiological Health, was published in Science magazine in October 1962, the same month as the Cuban missile crisis...
...prosperous American doctors -- is an afterimage of the '60s, that crucial decade in the character formation of the people who now rule us. Back when Bill Clinton wore a beard and Hillary Rodham wore glasses, right-thinking college students were much taken with the romance of barefoot doctors, those Cuban and Chinese medicos who lived among the people, treating simple ailments with simple means instead of prescribing uppers for bored housewives or performing nose jobs on their insecure daughters. The attitude may have been filed away in a footlocker with the beads and the bongs, but its long arm strikes...
...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...
Francisco J. Hernandez, president of theCuban-American National Foundation, also chastisedthe Cuban government's fiscal policies...
Hernandez, a native Cuban, decreid "35 years ofinjustice, repression, and destruction" in hishomeland. But other panelists defended Cuba'shuman rights record...