Medicine: Miracles on 34th Street

Any multimillionaire can surely afford to seek out the world's best medical care. If he happens also to be the father of the President of the U.S., his search can command unlimited assistance. But picking a hospital for Joseph P. Kennedy, victim of a severely paralyzing stroke five months ago, was no problem at all. Last week the former ambassador was flown to the world's largest hospital of its kind: Manhattan's pioneering Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, overlooking the East River at 34th Street. That Kennedy could face a long program of...

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