Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert H. Finch, LL.D., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Victorian lobby of Brown's Hotel, Dover Street, London W.I. To an experienced counterespionage agent, his disguise probably would have appeared too perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark...
...expand and diversify into such related businesses as drugstores and retirement communities. Some of the largest chains net only 5% or 6% yearly on investment v. an average of 10% for all of U.S. industry last year. The stocks in several big chains have dropped sharply; Hillhaven and National Health Enterprises are down more than 60% from their 1968 highs...
What Is Needed. The homes often cut costs in disconcerting ways. Baltimore-based Community Health Facilities keeps only one registered nurse on duty at a time in each home and relies heavily on nurse's aides, who get only $1.30 an hour. President Richard Rynd, 38, a onetime scrap-metal dealer, openly scoffs at a competing home that employs registered nurses rather than aides. "No wonder it loses money," says Rynd. Like most operators, Rynd has no full-time staff physicians or dietitians. Even so, his homes exceed Medicare's staffing standards, which call for only one registered...
...that they might not be able to achieve alone. For Reuther, frustrated in his efforts to make national policy through the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the linkup provides a base of 3.6 million members and a podium from which to advance his ideas. Last week he reiterated his call for national health insurance, tax reform and organization of community action groups to speak for the poor and the black. For the Teamsters, the alliance offers a much-needed aura of respectability. The Teamsters' acting president, Frank Fitzsimmons, made clear that his union would give up none of its independence by entering...