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...thumb: three lbs. of weight equals one length in a mile race. From his performance charts (meticulously maintained by a trained, fulltime staff of nine), his own turf experience (he began working at tracks when he was 19) and reliable paddock chatter, Trotter gets the information he needs to assign weights: the ability of the horse to carry weight, the quality of its stable, the canniness of its trainer, the track's condition...
Such plans infringe on A.M.A.'s oldest tenets: that doctors should be paid a fee for each service and that patients and doctors should choose each other freely. Fully organized health plans collect from patients on insurance principles, pay their doctors salaries or shares, and assign patients to qualified specialists. A.M.A. fought group plans for years; the surrender was a belated recognition by A.M.A.'s scientific element that these systems can and do give good results. Out of such challenges and accommodations comes 1961's ferment of change in the relation between doctors and patients...
What Bobby's official post is going to be is still undecided. The President has offered him the job of heading the CIA, but Bobby has balked at that. He feels that the post is too sensitive for a President to assign to his brother, and that the appointment would bring outcries of protest. Bobby tried to talk up Max Taylor as the man for the job, but Taylor insists that he does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give...
Owen said that the Masters suggested possible changes at recent meetings but did not give detailed consideration to the problem. One plan that has been mentioned is the Yale system, which allows freshmen to pick their roommates but uses an IBM machine to assign them to the Colleges...
...ideas. Furthermore, examinations put a premium on memory and glibness, whereas evaluation of a student should be based chiefly upon standards of accuracy, clarity, and perceptiveness--qualities which one hopes to find among adults. As one instructor put it, "Taking examinations is an activity peculiar to students. When you assign papers, you treat the student like an adult...