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...public attention becomes more sharply focused on health matters, particularly with Medicare going into effect, there must be greater depth of understanding of the causes of chronic disease and, disability, which will be straining medical-care facilities more and more...
Just who is being pinched by the money squeeze - and how badly? The victims are mostly the risky "marginal" borrowers. Many lenders are rejecting youngsters facing the draft, chronic job jumpers, families already loaded with debts. Almost every other consumer, however, can still find a friendly lender ready to advance cash for furniture or appliances, which is one reason why color TV sales continue to run at double last year's record...
...course, there are even more basic reasons for the travail of Britain's not-so-sterling currency. Low productivity and lackadaisical management have con tributed to a chronic trade deficit, which last month increased 14% from the April level. The British appear to care more about mod than money. Mourned Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan: "It seems we are talking to those who are deaf. In the end, the government cannot achieve success. Only the country can do that...
Figuring in the Argument. Baseball fans, being chronic dyspeptics (too much warm beer, too many cold hot dogs), doubtless will debate forever who is the best pitcher of the 1966 season, the decade, the century, and All Time. There is a strong possibility that Juan Marichal will figure in the grander argument...
...dowdy, motherly, working nurse. Life, as seen from a dull suburb of industrial Nottingham, makes him not angry so much as itching with vague discomfort, as does his hairy tweed suit, which "makes him look as if he had been rolled over by a sheep." He has chronic spiritual snuffles. His novels are about "sensitive provincial types who live far away from where things happen...