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...President Eisenhower's "traditional American approach to medical insurance," (started in 1932) high premiums are dictated by the sanctity of actuarial laws. The high rates so established have forced too many Americans to gamble with their health. After twenty-three years of operation, health insurance pools have attained their crest and are now receding-today the percentage of health costs covered by insurance drops steadily. With the "traditional American approach" it is inevitable that children and adults will continue to develop chronic, incurable diseases, for many families with substandard incomes can afford neither doctor's bills nor the $150 premiums...
...reports of this and other strikes came into Salt Lake City, uranium's Wall Street, brokers were happily riding the crest of a new boom in trading, the biggest rush since last May's frantic buying of penny stocks. The boom then was founded on paper claims and hope; now the penny-stock companies are merging, or being taken over by companies with enough capital to start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising...
...years ago to honor a victory in the Crimea. When the river waters swirl around Gody's calves, Parisians know that the Seine is in flood. Last week the water reached well above Gody's elbows. As the floodwaters poured down into the city, raising the river crest to nearly seven meters above normal, all of Paris' quais were engulfed. The priceless works on the ground floor...
...alleged; it can be demonstrated. The Yangtze inundated a large part of China's vital rice bowl. The Communists admitted the flooding of nearly 42,000 square miles of farm land. Western sources put the figure at over 267,000 square miles. In view of the Yangtze's record crest of 97 feet, the latter figure in probably the more accurate...
Based on a play by Hugh Hastings, Crest tells the plain tale of a minor scientific project set up by the British navy. A dozen officers and men, including three from the U.S. Navy, are sent to a rocky outcrop off the British coast with orders to develop a torpedo that will carry a new and highly sensitive explosive. As the camera grinds away at men and officers, it also grinds into the moviegoer's face the long, quiet pain of existing beneath a higher purpose. The work consoles what the isolation irks in the characters, but between...