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...where no such plan is available, or who do not qualify for membership because they cannot get into a "group membership" plan, or who are not regularly employed, or who simply cannot afford the premiums. For subscribers to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield types of insurance above the income cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years of heavy illnesses or operations. But since this income group is the part of U.S. society which pays heavy income taxes, people in this group would make up most of the deficits in even bigger income taxes. The well...
Motorists should follow the parkway for 15.4 miles to a turnoff sign which reads "New Haven via Whitney Avenue." Cars going directly to the Bowl should continue on the parkway a speck further into the new bypass cutoff. A sign will confirm that this is the way to Yale Bowl, and this road--Route 34--runs directly past the Eli Stadium...
...painted pine tablets and sacred statuettes might easily have been mistaken for relics of ancient Crete. They had the same soft, staring eyes, tight smiles and ornate costumes. Actually they were made between 1680 and 1850, in a cutoff, primitive, fiercely Roman Catholic corner of western America. Last week 80 of them, on tour of the Pacific Coast, were on exhibition in Portland, Ore.'s art museum. Next stop: Seattle...
More likely for future development is the northern half of the Alcan, with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...
Engineers Are Pioneers. As on the Alcan itself, the Army Engineers did the tough pioneering for the Haines cutoff. Without adequate maps or a ground survey, three companies of the 340th Engineers pushed into the snow late last winter. Location parties used dog teams and native guides. Working with limited equipment in winter weather, the "Hairy Ears" found a way, slashed out a tote road...