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Perverted Power. Boasting an annual budget of $11.5 million, Traverse City Hospital wields considerable influence in the town (pop. 17,700). The manager of the local Sears, Roebuck and Co. store, David C. Zemke, wrote to Sommerness: "We will refrain from further use of this media. Please assure your employees that we value their patronage very highly and are indeed sorry if we offended them." After hospital officials threatened to move the institution's bank accounts, the National Bank and Trust Co. also canceled its advertising. So did Robert Dean, president of Red Mill Lumber Co., pointing out that...
Russian Trucks. The President once again based his position on "understandings" with the North Vietnamese dating back to November 1968. At that time the U.S. let it be known that in return for the bombing halt ordered by Lyndon Johnson, it expected the North Vietnamese to refrain from attacking across the Demilitarized Zone and stop rocketing South Vietnamese cities; the U.S. also intended to continue intelligence flights over the North. The North Vietnamese never formally agreed to the understandings. Instead, word came from Moscow that Hanoi grasped the American position. By and large, the North Vietnamese have stuck...
...President, he said, should appoint a commission of distinguished citizens to spend six months consulting with labor leaders, corporate chiefs and consumer groups in order to work out equitable and noninflationary guidelines for wage and price behavior. During those six months, the President would ask all businesses to refrain from increasing prices and all labor leaders who are negotiating contracts to take perhaps a 5% interim wage boost and keep the contracts open for final negotiation when the guidelines come out. If even partially accepted, the policy would brake the inflationary momentum. When the guidelines were finally promulgated, the atmosphere...
Foster tried to work out last week prior to the Brown contest, but as he confessed, "I couldn't even trot; I couldn't do anything." He went out to practice yesterday with orders from doctors to refrain from sprints, fast starts or sudden jerks of any kind...
...cost of malpractice insurance is borne by patients. This is one reason for the 21% rise in doctors' fees since 1967, to say nothing of extra tests and X rays ordered by doctors who fear malpractice suits. Worse, many doctors have begun to practice defensive medicine. Some refrain from prescribing drugs or recommending surgery that might run the slightest risk; others avoid cases in which they cannot virtually guarantee success. The result, says Dr. Richard Gibbs, chairman of the Massachusetts Medical Society's committee on professional liability, is in "the worst possible interest of the people...