Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator from Wisconsin, Republican Alexander Wiley has maintained an aloof attitude toward Joe McCarthy. When the U.S. Senate was voting to censure Wisconsin's junior Senator, the senior Senator was handily attending a conference in South America. Some of McCarthy's powerful Wisconsin friends who did not care for Wiley's attitude let it be known that they might try to beat him in the 1956 primary. Last week, the primary 18 months away, Wiley unexpectedly took a place at the speakers' table at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Knights of Columbus of Kenosha...
...Government is now responsible for the medical care of 30 million Americans. Cost last year: $4.15 billion. In the opinion of the Hoover Commission, that money is ill-spent by 26 overlapping, badly organized agencies and 66 administrative units. To clear up the mess, a task force of doctors.and administrative experts made stringent suggestions to the Hoover Commission.* In somewhat tempered form, the suggestions went to Congress last week. Main points...
...Make it harder for veterans to get treatment for nonservice disabilities (at present, more than half of the 100,000 beds in VA hospitals are taken up by such cases at an estimated cost of $500 million a year). To get care for nonservice disabilities, veterans now have only to say that they cannot afford treatment elsewhere. Henceforth, recommended the Commission, such statements should be verified...
...Stop medical care for 2,500 merchant seamen now in U.S. Public Health Service hospitals. This oldest (1798) medical responsibility taken on by the Government is now unnecessary because many shipping companies have private medical-insurance programs...
...subject has been filmed before, of course, notably in Pinky, the story of an affair between a white man and a Negro girl; but in White Feather the hero (Robert Wagner) is a white man who actually marries a red-blooded Indian girl. The moviemakers have of course been careful to soften the shock of this dee-double-daring event. The marriage takes place way back in the 1870s and is not shown on the screen. The Indian girl is played by a pretty young actress (Debra Paget) who is obviously of sturdy Nordic stock, and the rest...