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...medicine is the organization of the plan's Permanente- Medical Groups. There is one group each for northern and southern California, Oregon and Hawaii. Most of the Permanente doctors are partners in their own organization, in undisputed charge of the medical care supplied to patients. This silences the bitterest opposition of organized medicine, which has always been reserved for any third party's, especially laymen, having any control over the relations between doctors and patients...
...nearly a decade, the bitterest holdout against the rush to retail trading stamps was the nation's biggest grocery chain, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Only last March did A. & P. reluctantly get into the game with Plaid stamps. Last week, at the company's annual meeting, President Ralph W. Burger, who two years ago condemned the stamps as a "drag on civilization," conceded that they may be good for business...
...uneasy peace settled over Venezuela after a week in which warring wings of the armed forces engaged in some of the bitterest fighting in Venezuela's modern history. Residents of Puerto Cabello, a city of 80,000 lying beside the nation's largest naval base 75 miles west of the Caracas capital, buried their dead and started to clean up their shell-pocked city. Official casualty figures for the military were 47 dead, 89 wounded. But unofficial estimates put the toll, including civilians, at more than...
...hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat is waiting on the Minsk-Warsaw night express. Not even the Council of People's Commissars knows about the deal because, as Lenin says...
...battle between Freeman and the 1,600,000-member Farm Bureau has turned into one of the Kennedy Administration's bitterest frays. Both Freeman and the bureau have the same aim: to cut down the expense of the scandalous U.S. farm program, which last year cost $1 billion alone to maintain the mountain of surplus foods. Freeman would solve the problem by setting up the most elaborate system of acreage and production controls in U.S. history-and cut farmers off from almost all forms of Government aid if they did not accept those controls. The Farm Bureau favors fewer...