Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to office reached Hong Kong, headlines in the pro-Communist press jeered: BALDHEAD GOING BACK TO THRONE. In New York City, where he has been convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman...
...Insurance Works. Here is a specific example of how the combined Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans work. Last October, the wife of a Bronx freight handler, whose income is $2,400 a year, came down with acute appendicitis. The illness marked the first time that the family had had occasion to use its hospital insurance (held since 1943), now combined with a Blue Shield surgical plan, for premiums totaling $64.32 a year. The wife had an appendectomy and, because of complications, stayed in the hospital 24 days. For the first 21 days, Blue Cross allowed $6 a day; beyond...
...Would Benefit? Under the Ewing plan, the Bronx freight handler's premiums would be $72 a year at first, rising to $96 after the plan is widened to cover dentistry, eye care and chronic illnesses. But the freight handler would pay only half ($36 to $48) in direct payroll taxes; his employer would pay the rest...
Actually, the Ewing plan would not make much difference to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield subscriber, such as the Bronx freight handler, in terms of dollars. Most directly benefited by it would be millions of Americans who live in areas where no such plan is available, or who do not qualify for membership because they cannot get into a "group membership" plan, or who are not regularly employed, or who simply cannot afford the premiums. For subscribers to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield types of insurance above the income cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years...
Almost as big a surprise was 27-year-old Bronx-born opera-saver Regina Resnik (TIME, Aug. 25, 1947), whose dramatically convincing and vocally sumptuous Sieglinde was more than a match for 59-year-old veteran Tenor Lauritz Melchior's Siegmund...