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...reaching public health services. In 1946, Douglas inaugurated medical care for 50,000 of Saskatchewan's 925,000 people. The following year, the Douglas government launched Canada's first province-wide hospital insurance plan. The new medicare act is the capstone of Douglas' planning. A country cousin of Britain's NHS, it provides province-wide compulsory insurance covering payments for all medical, surgical and specialist treatment. Unlike the British plan, it does not cover dentistry, glasses or drugs. The cost, $22 million a year, is to be met by annual premiums ($12 for single people...
...negotiates his "let us tell sad stories" speech affectingly on his knees, with both hands instinctively rising at "brass impregnable." When Bolingbroke later kneels to Richard, the latter says, "Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know, Thus high at least." Here 'Basehart properly clarifies the line by pointing to his crown on the word thus...
...scandalous U.S. farm hoard has a fat and sloppy cousin in the stockpiling program, which has gorged itself with $8.7 billion worth of war-emergency materials. This is more than twice as much as the Pentagon believes the U.S. needs for a three-year war. An investigation of stockpiling by a Senate Armed Services subcommittee has indicated that efforts to cut the surplus were blocked by Government agencies, pressure from industry, and downright inefficiency. Last week the subcommittee was told a tale, involving both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, of four metals...
...quantities. Last fortnight it announced plans for disposing of $600-$800 million worth of stockpile materials each year-about eight times the present disposal rate. But legislation will be necessary to put the plan into effect-and a lot of people who are fond of the fat cousin may fight to prevent him from becoming too lean...
...biggest yuk to hit television since Sid Caesar's salad wilted is a Goofy-Cousin-Clara sort of a girl with a grin full of teeth, a manner both tentative and brash, and a talent that comes bubbling up every time she opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera...