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Winding stairs have been replaced by Holyoke Center elevators. The laboratory is modern and well-lit, and instead of antiquated apparatus for emergency care there is equipment which even some big city hospitals don't have--such as the Pacemaker acquired...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: More Modern Facilities Brought UHS Problems Of A More Subtle Mode | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...across the nation, landed at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. No hitches, no nervous moments, no bother. And therein lies an even more remarkable story?a story that involves 14,000 highly trained and dedicated men who work with some of the most complex and sophisticated electronic apparatus ever devised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Crowded Skies | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...troubles of the police and the courts, the prison and parole system seems to be in even deeper difficulty. "The most striking fact about the correctional apparatus today," says the commission, "is that, although the rehabilitation of criminals is presumably its major purpose, the custody of criminals is actually its major task." It is bothered by a vast imbalance. On any single day it has authority over 1,300,000 offenders, but only one-third of them are behind bars. The rest are on probation or parole. It is in the prisons and jails, however, where four-fifths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CRIME & THE GREAT SOCIETY | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...second major feature of the Party's attempt to reassert its hold over the society was the strengthening of the Party Control Commission apparatus. The Central Control Commission (and local branches) had been established in 1955 in the wake of the purge of Kao Kang. Although the Commission was staffed by some important leaders, there were few indications that it was very active in the middle and late fifties. In any event, it was clearly not so ominous an organization as those created in the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, since all of its 21 members worked...

Author: By Donald W. Klein, | Title: Frustrated Young Leaders Pose Problems For Chinese Communists | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

...glad the German handshake [Feb. 17] is on its way out before serious damage is done to mankind and man's property. In West Germany last summer, I remarked on this custom to friends in Preetz-Holstein. One afternoon there was a fire that necessitated fire apparatus from neighboring villages. I bet my friends that there would be a big handshake all around before they got to the work at hand. We stood there and laughed while the fire continued its destruction and handshakes went around the fire brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

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