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...school graduate to enroll regardless of qualifications, has increased the student body to 266,000. While Chicago, for example, maintains one municipal hospital, New York provides 19. The city also contributes close to $1 billion a year to municipal welfare programs, and 1 million of the 7.9 million residents collect benefits. Outside auditors have estimated that as much as 14.2% of the money goes to people who do not qualify for it. By enrolling in a drug program, narcotics addicts have been able to qualify for welfare payments. Since many of them continued to take drugs, the payments have subsidized...
Nearly a year ago, Henry Kissinger promised to give his next televised interview to NBC'S Barbara Walters. Yet every time the tigress of the Today show tried to collect, some international crisis intervened. "I kept trying to find out when, when, when," she recalls. Last week she found out. Kissinger agreed to sit still for more than an hour in the State Department's handsome Madison Room, and chunks of Walters' revealing taped interview with him appeared on Today for four consecutive mornings...
Bobby Massie is more fortunate than most hemophiliacs. His parents were not wealthy, but they were determined. They swallowed their pride and ran campaigns to collect the blood he needed, pleading with friends, relatives and even strangers for donations of the vital fluid. (The problem, writes Robert, was not in being grateful, but in having to be grateful: "Nobody likes to beg for charity. And begging for blood is just as hard, maybe harder, than begging for money.") They concealed their fears and sent him to school, then hid their hurt when his classmates called him "leather legs" because...
...study of history has its equivalent of Dupin the relaxed thinker puffing on his meerschaum, scoffing at the scurrying police as they collect their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense...
Poor Godfrey struggles through years of rejection before a rich young man accepts him, much as a lepidopterist might collect a grotesque rare moth. When the young man dies, he leaves Godfrey enough money to go to Britain's best plastic surgeon. What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less...