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Health insurance, a boon to no million people in the U.S., is regarded by more and more doctors as a paper-spewing ogre. Reason: the torrent of technical information requested by insurance forms is cutting into doctors' valuable time for treating patients, leading directly to higher costs for medical care...
...Jones should be only the beginning. Meaney and Evans now hope to film such great masters as T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee and Bernard Berenson. Says Evans dreamily: "Suppose we had had this thing in the 16th century. Why, we could have had Shakespeare. Even more recently, what a boon it would have been to have had Einstein explain relativity...
...common sense, the promise of a bumper harvest ought to measure up as an unmixed blessing. But in the U.S. of 1957, the soil's abundance has become a costly national problem that turns values topsy-turvy, makes good crop weather seem a national calamity and drought a boon. In a year of bountiful crops, the Agriculture Department will spend a record $5 billion, largely in an effort to cope with surpluses. Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored...
...anything bothers the liquor industry more than teetotalers, it is the legal taboos that restrict its advertising copy. While many an industry from cereals to soap touts its product as a boon to health or happiness, distillers are barred by Internal Revenue's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division from using "any advertisement which creates the impression that distilled spirits will contribute to the mental or physical well-being of the consumer, or may be consumed, even in moderate quantities, without any detrimental effect." Last week there were signs that the industry is getting around the law with ads discreetly...
Sheiks & Brothers. The crisis came when Army Chief Abu Nuwar, the playboy general and his onetime boon companion, told Hussein that if he did not appoint Abdel Halim Nimr as Premier, the army would force him to. Hussein acted. On signal, his men spread word in Zerka that Communists headed by Abu Nuwar were about to seize the royal palace and overthrow the King. The Moslem Brotherhood took charge of the streets; the Bedouin garrison began attacking officers and an infantry unit known to support Abu Nuwar. They fought first with stones and rifle butts, later with bullets. Twelve...