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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last someone has topped the notorious Marie Antoinette, who, when told that the people of France had no bread, replied: "Let them eat cake." The topper is the Administration's proposal for a voluntary medical plan for aged persons of low income groups. In order to qualify for the proposed Medicare, an elderly person would have to scrape up $274, or a couple, $448. Do the backers of this plan know what it's like not to have $448? Or $48? Or 48?? Many old people...
Clutching his tray, he wandered to a table near the wall and sat down to eat, still alone. When, at long last, a chance passer-by said hello to him, the official eagerly stood up to shake hands. Without prompting, he launched into a monologue that splashed forth like water from a spilled pitcher. Things were looking brighter, he said. His mail was unmistakably encouraging, and surveys had proved him right. His program was "sound," he insisted. Four-fifths of the problem was solved, and it is only "the one-fifth that gives us trouble." Plaintively, he predicted that...
...what's going to happen." One of the things that may happen is forecast in the Douay translation of Ecclesiastes 5:10-"Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them." Under the Babson trust, an annual income of about $7,000 is to take care of the prizes. This year the prizes amount to $17,042 instead of the $7,000 allotted for them. To keep the fund from shrinking too fast, Roger Babson promised to put up more money...
...ground, But thief steal am for night, an' ant eat some too. One of them farmers, him got plenty sense, 'E go for Barclays Bank an' they keep him money well...
...urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths, eat in a cafeteria that has all the liveliness of a summer cookout...