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...percent." At a costume ball as the cruise nears its end, a blonde dressed as a cigarette girl saunters out. Our applause is fiery and approving, the band goes into Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and we are all left to worry about how long our tobacco cure really will last...
Russians, for example, have few cars, scarcely any leaded gasoline and nothing like the plethora of disposable diapers, plastic containers and nonreturnable bottles that clog capitalist garbage cans. Paradoxically, Communist regimes also can-at least in theory-cure by fiat the very environmental ills they cause by runaway industrialization...
...best medical training has a serious flaw: the U.S. has only one physician for every 650 people, compared with the Soviet ratio of one to 400 and the Italian figure of one to 580. One out of 50 Americans has no access to a doctor under any circumstances. To cure the shortage, the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger Egeberg, prescribes an immediate injection of 50,000 new physicians -a 15% increase in those now practicing. Last week the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education produced a plan that could fill this prescription...
Last spring Vermont enacted various progressive laws aimed primarily at the state's chief blight: slipshod real estate development (TIME, Sept. 26, 1969). In theory, the laws cure other ills as well. By mid-1971, for example, industries will be required to buy permits to pour effluents into rivers and streams; the fees are scaled to the amount of wastes discharged. Although the new rules seemed models for other states to follow, they have already disappointed almost everyone...
...traditional plot line is there, but the story is empty. Everyone in the room knows that Bobby Orr can't cure the kid, but in the backs of their minds there still exists the belief that maybe this time...