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Horror stories like that of California's drug-popping Surgeon John Nork (TIME, Dec. 10), while mercifully rare, are not rare enough. Indeed, there is a broad spectrum of incompetent and unwarranted surgery. One reason for the spate of sterilizing hysterectomies and other dubious operations may be simply that there are too many surgeons. The U.S. has twice as many in proportion to population as Great Britain-and Americans undergo twice as many operations as Britons. Yet, on the average, they die younger...
...going to be engaged to tomorrow?" teased Britain's Prince Charles as a gaggle of giggling housewives greeted him at the start of a day's grouse shooting in Scotland. Obviously, like the housewives, the bachelor heir to the British throne had been reading the latest spate of speculation about his marital plans. Currently supposed to be the leading choice as his future Queen: Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington. But then, Bonnie Prince Charlie is also rumored to be fond of Rose Clifton, 21, whose father is a retired army officer. Maybe...
...Pathet Lao (TIME, Aug. 13). Conservatives grumbled that the prince was giving the Communists too many key posts in the proposed coalition government and allowing them to maintain too many soldiers in Vientiane and in Luangprabang, the royal capital. To seasoned observers of Laotian politics, who recall the spate of right-wing tries at coups in the early 1960s, the only uncertainty was how many of Souvanna's generals would desert him. As it turned out last week, none...
...Third Reich, Adolf Hitler promised, would last a thousand years. Those who deal in historical ironies have long enjoyed pointing out that it lasted only twelve. Or did it? Once again, a spate of new books on Hitler and his era are setting bookstore shelves abloom with the inevitable swastikas and Chaplinesque mustaches. The 1,000-book Reich-recollected in tranquillity-must surely be near at hand...
Penn's first half spate was marked neither by the domination and penetration of Navy nor the harum-scarum boldness of Williams, but by a honed execution, by cutting midfielders, and by hard, mid-air shots...