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...Author Farrell's mealy prose and chronic inability to individualize scene and character muffle most of his stories. In describing a summer stock production in one of the dullest of them, he comes close to summing up his own worst faults...
Luckily, the worst publicity that the Council has received in recent years occurred in the same year that the group was required by its Constitution to examine itself and to begin a general revision. The numerous and chronic errors of the body provided plentiful material for the large "Council Committee on Self Examination." Then a smaller committee or revision began the actual work of revising the Council's constitution...
...speaks of "full-coverage hospital, medical, and surgical insurance plans." No such plans exist. Most programs cover hospitalized illness, which is only half of national medical fees. Almost none of the AMA-approved plans provides for preventive medicine or covers chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes, which claim 26 million victims...
...showmen who could stop worrying long enough about Broadway's chronic money problems and the growing threat of TV, prospects looked rosier than they had in years...
...Dyer says of his 34 years with the PHS: "I've seen the whole field of public health change enormously in that time. The accent of our research ... has changed from the control of infectious diseases to include chronic diseases." The problem now is not so much the diseases that kill people young, as what to do with people who live to grow old. For that, NIH has a clinical center abuilding...