Graveyard Slum Governs Life Beside Saigon Cemetery
In Saigon a stone cemetery houses 5,000 refugees and the poor in makeshift shacks scattered among tombstones dating to 1900 and earlier. A U S aid doctor, Tom Durant, uses health mobiles and hospital improvements to curb epidemics, while residents, many Catholic, survive amid crowded conditions and limited sanitation.
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Thomas S. Durant
Boston
U. S
Saigon
North
South Vietnam
Tom Durant
Box score pop survey of 1966 top music hits
Summary of the year 1966 music scene listing the big five records led by Ballad of the Green Berets and Sounds of Silence, notes on top male and female vocalists, leading groups, and new breakout acts Simon and Garfunkel, Mama and Papas, and Paul Revere and the Raiders. Also covers monthly hit milestones, teen club Alateen, and edible ink production trend.
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Sgt
Barry Sadler
Simon and Garfunkel
Bobby Hebb
Frank Sinatra
The
Supremes
Gary Lewis
James Brown
Elvis Presley
Pet Clark
Dionne Warwick
Nancy Sinatra
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Lovin’ Spoonful
B. J. Thomas
Sandy Posey
Norma Tanega
Verdelle Smith
Water shortage grips Buenos Aires despite wide river
Buenos Aires faces a summer water shortage with 1.5 million residents drinking insufficiently and 2 million lacking sanitation. The city, built on the River Plate, relies on a single purification plant and plans for new facilities, funded by taxes and a development bank loan, have stalled due to missing funds.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
River Plate
National Development Council
Aires
Argentina
Peron
Palermo
Bernal
Inter American Development Bank
Saigon Faces Hospital Strains Amid Medical School Plans
Crowded Saigon hospitals show two patients per bed, with wards falling into disrepair and staff burnout due to long hours and low pay. City dispensaries offer first aid and polio inoculation campaigns proceed as a new medical school opens with 200 students and US visiting professors. By goal, Saigon and country expect more physicians, tackling a decided urban bias in medical care.
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Saigon
U. S
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Pasa
Atages
By Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Holy Rosary Catholic
Durant
Harvard School of Public Health
U.S. Agency For International Development
Tom Duvast
Youth Beat
the National Report
Bobby Darin
Bobby
Sonny & Cher
Baloney
United States
California
Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Health Ministry
Juan D. Peron
Interior Provinces
Buenos
Savers
Smartaires
Life Stride
Miss America
Downtown
Lindale
Lindale Plaza
Craemers
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