ARGENTINA: Good Doctor, Bad Case

At the Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together.

A woman plumped a stifling bouquet of autumn flowers into his arms: cheers burst from 300 waiting supporters of President Ortiz. The good doctor disingenuously...

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