Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brand the President's proposal as inadequate, inflationary and dangerous. His own plan, the Senator noted, would fix doctor and hospital charges for everybody, the President's only for Healthcare patients. Thundered Kennedy: "This step is a regressive one, inconsistent with the goal of a truly single-class health care system. By failing to set a national budget, by failing to control doctors' fees in the private sector, by perpetuating two separate and unequal systems of care, the President's plan may well become the straw that breaks the back of the American health care system...
Some 400 of L.E.l.U.'s cards have been obtained by Chicago Civil Rights Lawyer Richard Gutman as a result of a still pending class-action suit he filed against the Chicago police department in 1974, charging the force with politically motivated surveillance and harassment that was unconstitutional. Gutman admits that most of the cards cover the activities of suspected criminals, but he says that 64 bear information that is basically political. One card described a former University of Washington professor as a "Marxist scholar . . . present at many demonstrations in Seattle," none of which has anything to do with...
...revelations, Firestone's potential legal payments over the matter of the 500 series were large. Last year it settled out of court for $1.4 million one lawsuit involving two deaths and a quadriplegic survivor, and it now acknowledges at least 250 pending private liability actions, plus further class-action suits demanding billions of dollars in compensation. The company considers such claims to be "outlandish." The Center for Auto Safety, founded by Ralph Nader and Consumers Union, estimates that current liability suits could cost the company as much as $100 million...
...social criticism there is no trace. The nurse in Meal for a Convalescent, who stands opening a boiled egg in a kind of reverential silence, like a secular descendant of Georges de la Tour's saints, is not a representative of the class war; the efforts of some historians to see Chardin's servants as emblems of an oppressed proletariat on the eve of the French Revolution are simply beside the point. A sense of social precariousness is the last thing one could expect to meet in a Chardin; indeed, one can hardly imagine him working without...
DIED. Philip Van Horn Weems, 90, navigation expert; of pneumonia; in Annapolis, Md. A Tennessee farm boy who graduated with the same U.S. Naval Academy class ('12) as Explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...