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Third-Party Alibi. Enormous demand is pressing upon limited supply. While 156 million Americans now have some kind of private health insurance, poor planning is driving up prices. Though a sophisticated computer system may cut a hospital's labor force, such automation is not widely in use. Without good planning, improved care seems to require more employees. Since 1946, the number of hospital employees per patient has increased from 1½ to 2½. To hire more employees, hospitals must compete with industry; last year hospital wages rose 20%. And labor costs already make up 62% of hospital budgets...
...Police had the murder weapon; witnesses insisted that Jaccoud had shot and stabbed the father of a man who had stolen his mistress. But Floriot harried the witnesses into damaging concessions about the murder weapon, wrung lurid testimony from the mistress. He airily dismissed Jaccoud's lack of alibi: "Only criminals have alibis. Intelligent people never remember how they spend their evenings." Jaccoud got seven years...
...Hermetic Alibi. An all-points bulletin snared the prosecutor less than an hour later in Victorville, 100 miles east of Naples, in a car headed home. He explained that he had driven his son's Volkswagen 300 miles to Las Vegas the night of the murders. At the time of the killings, Kirschke said, he had been en route to Las Vegas to address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only...
...faith in our American system of criminal justice." The police released him, after the interrogation, but the investigation went on. Last week, after 31 days of testimony from 36 witnesses, California Assistant Attorney General Al Harris persuaded a grand jury that he had punctured Jack Kirschke's hermetic alibi. The erstwhile prosecutor was indicted on two counts of murder, arraigned, and given until June 23 to formulate his plea...
...schedule also suits today's wayward servantless housewife, whose children return home from school at 4:30, thus destroying the old cinq a sept timetable. Another aid for delinquent dames: the wig.""It's a wonderful alibi," explained one Parisian housewife last week. "You tell your husband you must go to the hairdresser. Then, instead, you send your wig and stay home to receive your lover. You retrieve the wig later and appear properly coiffed for your husband. Neat." As for Novelist Sagan, who was in New York last week promoting her new book, the failure of Americans...