Word: hackensack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perverse Insurance. Doctors are partly to blame, sometimes allowing patients to go to the hospital when they might be treated or operated on just as well in the doctor's office. Indeed, Administrator Martin Ulan of New Jersey's Hackensack Hospital goes so far as to estimate that 50% of the patients in his hospital might be treated at home. Under many private insurance plans, however, the policyholder gets no payment unless he has been hospitalized. According to Dr. Ray Brown of Duke University, "insurance actuaries have been the architects of the medical care system...
...From Hackensack to Pottstown, Lock Haven to Dover, the power lines went dead for up to nine daylight hours throughout a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of the East. More than 13 million people, living in three-quarters of New Jersey, much of eastern Pennsylvania, eastern Maryland and northern Delaware, were caught last week in the nation's second great power failure...
...inspectors following, the trail led through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit drugs, evidence for which he had paid...
...kind of place where you feel guilty every time you play ping-pong." It is hectic, but when things get tight, he is renowned in the dorm for his ability to "wonk" (know spelled backward), or cram, for exams. Last week, preparing for back-to-back concerts in Hackensack, N.J., and Akron, James Oliver Buswell IV sighed sagely: "It will be refreshing to get back and be just another one of the students searching for truth...
Divorced. By Les Paul, 48, electric guitarist who turned such oldtimers as How High the Moon into ear-popping pop hits: Mary Ford, 43, his sing-along partner; on grounds of cruelty; after 15 years of marriage, one child, now in Paul's custody; in Hackensack...