Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOCTORS' FEES. One of the prickliest problems involves the system of paying doctors, already angered by the specter of bureaucrats interfering in their practices. Dr. Philip Randolph Lee, Assistant HEW Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, said last week: "We have heard from some sources that physicians have raised their fees in anticipation of Medicare." A guidebook went out last week to some 230,000 physicians reminding them that the Government will pay "reasonable" fees-meaning an amount close to what the doctor usually charges non-Medicare patients in his area...
...other dissent. Many delegates were dissatisfied with the lack of specific spending proposals and timetables in the council report. Ruth Turner, a CORE official from Cleveland, wanted a minimum of $8 billion for housing alone. Bill Russell, the professional basketball player, criticized big business for being seen little and heard less at the conference. "What good is education without jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local police forces. One group...
...accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here has heard a story. This neighborhood has been politically exploited. But Warren delivered. Gypsum is now accepted and respected...
...gets pregnant, boy gets nervous. The rest of their time is spent agonizing over an imminent abortion while the camera strives to fill every pause with poetry. Young World is a perfectly well-made, perfectly dull movie-and a rather embarrassing one, coming from De Sica. He has obviously heard the music that the new generation swings to, but the flip, hip challenging vitality of it has not got through...
More than a hundred Harvard students gathered on the lawn in front Widener Library on that afternoon April. They handed out leaflets and condemned war and aggression, but they were not worried about Vietnam. Most of them, in fact, had probably never heard of Vietnam...