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...would like to comment on Los Angeles County Hospital. More than 50% of our patients are aged 60 or older. We see people daily who have been rejected by their families, lost all their savings, and with their bodies racked by chronic illness. They have no incentive to get well, no hope of finding a useful place in a society they themselves founded. It seems to me that the problem lies more in what to do with these people after we cure them than in curing them itself...
...come of introducing democracy right now, and fear that the feudal kingdom of Saudi Arabia might fragment if local parliaments were allowed. Frustrated, entangled in bigotry and the ever-sprouting tendrils of corruption in government, Feisal fell seriously ill (most of his life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave for Switzerland for medical treatment. King Saud, 58, looking more regally splendid than ever in his new style of democratic monarch, took off for Jidda and Mecca to welcome the year...
...ranging from anxiety and psychosomatic illnesses to the severe mental disorders, e.g., schizophrenia, that afflict an estimated 1% of the working force. Such disturbances, they contend, are the real causes of many of industry's most common employee difficulties: alcoholism, accidents, resistance to authority, high job turnover, shirking, chronic complaints. Emotional illness causes more absenteeism than any other illness except the common cold, and psychiatrists believe that 70% of all those fired for other reasons (fighting with the boss, sloppy work) are actually suffering from emotional disorders...
Raid on Aid. None was fatter than the $251 million depressed-areas bill locked up in the House Rules Committee for more than a year. With a magic appeal to both urban and farm areas, the Democratic bill provides for loans and grants to areas of chronic unemployment (so broadly defined, say Republicans, that New York City could qualify), to be dispensed by a U.S. Area Redevelopment Administration. Two revolving funds of $75 million each would furnish loans to spur industry in urban and rural areas; $50 million in loans would be available for construction of public facilities; direct grants...
...nothing in common with Brahmin aristocrats such as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Three years ago, when Nehru finally named Patil to the cabinet, it was with reluctance. But within weeks of taking over the Food and Agriculture Ministry last August, Patil devised a daring solution to India's chronic food crisis. Nehru was half-hearted about the plan, Patil's colleagues were apathetic, but Patil pressed...