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...force for an indefinite period. For something less even than this already dubious possibility, Israel was supposed to surrender the Abu Rudeis oil fields, which provide the country with nearly half of its requisite oil supply, and the Gidi and Mitla passes, natural fortifications essential for Israel to ward off a surprise attack like the Egyptian canal crossing of October...
...pages. Sheed & Ward...
...courtroom face-off with Psychiatrist and Cosmopolitan Columnist Renatus Hartogs, 66, who, she claimed, had mixed professional advice with sexual advances (TIME, March 24). Sexual intercourse with the good doctor, claimed Roy, had only produced severe depression and two involuntary stretches in a New York psychiatric ward. Last week a six-member jury awarded the $65-a-week clerk $250,000 in compensatory damages and another $100,000 in punitive damages. Hartogs, meanwhile, was left to ponder the possible loss of his medical license and the prospect of a similar suit by another of his former patients...
Assigned to a ward that was designed for 40 patients but is sometimes crowded with 50 or more, Condon reported for duty at 8 a.m. He immediately began taking blood samples from patients, then at 9 a.m. broke off to accompany a resident as he stopped at patients' bedsides. At 11:30 he wolfed down a sandwich and spent the rest of his lunch hour in the library reviewing patients' records to prepare himself for teaching rounds, when he would tour the ward with an attending physician. From 4 p.m., when the tour ended, until dinnertime, Condon continued...
Condon had planned to share the overnight duty with another intern, covering the ward from 6 p.m. to midnight while his colleague slept, then catching a few hours' sleep himself while his partner watched the ward. But at 7 p.m. the hospital admitted a heart-attack victim, and Condon's plans quickly changed. While the other intern took over the ward, Condon and the resident administered powerful drugs and oxygen to the patient. When he failed to respond, they inserted a tube in his windpipe to assist his breathing. In an effort to ease the burden...