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...this mean that the plans are misguided failures? Far from it. Medicare can be rated as a marked success both for the aged treated under it and for the hospitals treating them. Medicaid is suffering from all kinds of inflammatory ills, plus massive financial hemorrhaging, and is headed for drastic surgery before Congress quits for Christmas. But its benefits, in terms of medical treatment for those who could not afford it before, are certainly manifest...
...shied away from suggestion of unionism, since it was clear last winter that very few teaching fellows were willing to antagonize Harvard and jeopardize their own futures with a walkout. Even now, it is unlikely that enough teaching fellows have been convinced of the University's inflexibility to take drastic action. But there are other, less radical measures the teaching fellows could take--refusing to grade for example...
...great deal of sentiment in the House for Volpe's bill," Dukakis explained yesterday. But he added that the House is edgy and anxious to have a recess. As a result, Dukakis said, the House may support a modified version of the Governor's bill instead of the more drastic Basic Protection plan...
...committee was formed last Janu ary in the wake of Bishop James Pike's demand for a heresy trial to challenge those attacking him for speaking out against various hallowed doctrinal beliefs. The church was loath to take so drastic a step, instead named the committee of eleven clerics and laymen to advise the church's presiding bishop on the overall problem of freedom of inquiry within the church. It was headed by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., 59, energetic former executive secretary of the Anglican Communion, presently director of the church's overseas department...
...despite the punishment being absorbed daily by the Communists, no one envisions any dramatic breakthrough in the military balance very soon. This prospect has already prompted both pro-and anti-war camps to cry ever more loudly for drastic changes in strategy, leaving President Johnson little choice but to press for considerably more substantial gains in the field to bulwark his Administration's showing before...