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...Sold on television or through newspaper and magazine ads, mail-order health insurance policies that offer supplementary benefits are often cheaper than other forms of coverage, particularly for the elderly, who may otherwise be unable to get insurance. But does it conform to the same standards? Not according to COMBAT, Maine's statewide consumer-action organization. After a series of hearings on mail-order insurance, the organization reported that much of the advertising for health coverage was "unclear, deceptive and misleading." The group pointed out that policy holders and insurers frequently hold differing views as to just what constitutes...
...film is in many ways true to the nature of Churchill's self-examination in all his writing, if not exactly true to the man himself. Churchill showed very little interest in the complexities of his own psychology. His writings about himself all conform to the Classics Illustrated school of statesman autobiography, that "I am a part of all that I have met" syndrome whereby the man of action records no inner feelings which do not readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything...
There is no way of telling how much injustice the black community has suffered for its refusal to conform to the speech patterns of white America. Certainly this country must come to grips swiftly with the problem. Failure to deal with the languages of Afro-Americans and Spanish-speaking Americans as valid and culturally important paths of communication can only result in America continuing as a modern Tower of Babul...
...announced that the plan was under review. N.A.A.C.P. Labor Director Herbert Hill contends that "for all practical purposes, the day-to-day enforcement of the Philadelphia Plan has come to an end." Still, a Philadelphia plumbing contractor, Russell Associates, was barred from federal work last week for failure to conform to minority hiring agreements...
...wonderful story, and there are one or two others in this collection that approach it. But the rest of Goldberg's stories conform to a pattern that is be coming tediously familiar these days. Goldberg follows the form skillfully enough. Like Donald Barthelme he demonstrates not by fantastic apparitions but by a series of warped mundanities, that the familiar world is totally mad. The effect is like the disorientation of a sour dream...