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PARADE'S SPECIAL EDITED by LLOYD SHEARER BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF MAIL 8 DURBROW MOLTING TAYLOR LODGE BUNKER AMBASSADORS 1961 Since equate wisdom. it They with also like the U.S. has had five Bunker's soft voice, his ambassadors to South Viet- conservative mien, his nam: Elbridge Durbrow, equablo temperament, his Frederick Nolting genteel modesty, his prefGen. Maxwell Taylor, Henry erence to persuade rather Lodge (two terms), to pressuro. and Ellsworth Bunker.

South Vininamese journalof those five, none of ists claim their people whom could speak Viet- trust and respect Bunker namese, Ellsworth Bunker, far more than they did 74, is considered by Gon. Maxwell Taylor. whom the South Vietnamege to they blamo for the American be far and away the most troop buildup, and Henry effective. Cabot Lodge whom they The Vietnamese regard as an encmy of the venerate age and Buddhists. Is medicine In 1966 it was $28,000.

a profossion IMAGE ur a Is busi- tho average U.S. physician more noble, more high-minded, less commercial than his fellow citizen? Are physicians entitled to mix their practico with their private investments? Doos the public resent the high carnings of physicians? In 1961 their average not income after all expenses was $25,000. 8 INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED. Last year, thanks to Medicare and Medicaid payments, it zoomed to $34,000. The public admires physicians.

realizes thoy work hard, in most cases deserve: what they earn. What the public strongly resents the handful of the minority, for example, who sign a commercial laboratory to do all their tosts on the outside for $80 or $100 a month, then mako fabulous profits by REPORT PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES ABOUT THIS COLUMN. 1. rageous sums for such lab tectural charging patients out- I The ArchiPOEM A DAY tests as blood count, urine League of Now York has set analysis, sedimentation up a "dial-a-poem" sorvice rate, blood sugar, and all in Now York City. It's the other tests considered available to anyone who's necessary for a thorough willing to pay for a call physical oxam.

to (212) 628-0400. In New York State several l'oet John Giorno arranged legislators, shocked by for several poets to cut physician profiteering in tapes of their own works. lab tests--evidence shows His first selections inin some cases their mark- cluded Allen Ginsberg, ups have ranged from 1000 William Burroughs, Taylor to sponsored Mead, and others. Right legislation making it away the six phones rang illegal for dantors to bill with about 4000 calls each patients for lab tosts not 24 hours. performed in the doctors' Since then the League offices.

has added four more phones In California the state to handle 60,000 calls per legislature decided that week. The League and Giorno physiciaus should not be believe that poems have a allowed to own prescription beneficial effect on peopharmacies after 1967. ple and will continue the Several of them had been service until sending their paticuts into funds run out. their pharmacies to buy overpriced or unnecded BEER FOR the years Three ago drugs or drugs in which they interest. held a proprietary BRUSSES Justice Department ordered the Joseph Schlitz The courts have now ruled.

however, that while Breving Company to divest California itself of Burgermeister may and its interest in physicians no longer own pharmacies, John Labatt, 8. Canadian it is perfectly legal if they form brewing company. a corporation Schlitz, determined to and the corporation owns the overtake Anheuser-Busch, pharmacy, which, of number in violates one the brewing course, the intent of the law. industry, was naturally original disappointed. The digPhysicians in the U.S.

appointment, however, WAS have effective lobbies in domestic. Schlitz is state capitals as well as doing great overseas. It Washington, D.C., and not only owns the Puerto the moment doctors are Rico Brewing Company, and criticized, the lobbyists interests in three Spanish go to work. breweries, but it has It may well be that in recently moved into the this day and age, physi- Belgian market, acquiring cians arc no more noble control of S.A Brassoric than the rest of. us.

Is de Chlin, third largest there any reason that they beer outfit in Belgium. should he? They are after Belgians have a treall subject to the same mendous capacity for beer. pressures, desires, status They consume 32,4 gallons symbols, and total en- per capita compared to the vironment. U.S. consumption of 16.7.

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