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Five months after Medicare went into effect, the program is causing chaos in many U.S. hospitals. Because Medicare funds are not flowing fast enough, the hospitals face a choice of going into debt or raising their fees. The trouble, conceded Hubert Humphrey last week, is all too familiar: a serious bureaucratic bottleneck in Washington...
Research in Washington. The Varoutsos family was not anxious to part with the satchel. After all, they said, "it has his initials on it, and the tag says The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey.'" When the Vice President and his wife moved into their new southwest Washington apartment in October, they agreed to let their electrician, Paul Varoutsos, and his wife Jeanette auction off some of the junk at the old Humphrey house in Chevy Chase, Md., donating the proceeds to the local Children's Hospital. So far, the Humphreys' white elephants have raised...
After five hours' sleep, the President was wheeled into surgery. The operation proceeded smoothly (see following story) and at 7:20 a.m. Moyers was able to phone a reassuring report to Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the Harbour Square Apartments in southwest Washington. (By agreement with Johnson, Humphrey was authorized to exercise the full powers of the presidency if an emergency arose while Johnson was incapacitated.) Johnson began emerging from the anesthetic less than 15 minutes after surgery, and after a 40-minute nap the President was back in the cockpit...
Flunking Freshmen. In Hubert Humphrey's bailiwick of Minnesota, Republicans profited from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's decay and disarray. Beleaguered by intraparty strife and a state insurance scandal, Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag was toppled by Republican Moderate Harold LeVander, 56, a St. Paul attorney and onetime law partner of Harold Stassen's. Swedish-descended son of a Lutheran preacher, LeVander is a stem-winding speaker who has delivered more than 200 high school commencement addresses with such galvanizing titles as "Rise Up and Build" and "You Have Singled; Now Score...
...Hubert Vogelsinger, the Elis' rookie coaching ringer from Austria, deploys 8/11ths of his forces around the home goal and leaves the attack to a minimal forward line of three forwards. When they score, it is a quick strike: the backs kick long to the speedy forwards who get off a shot before the opponent's defense can retreat...