Word: ill
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...well be the biggest. Costs for its services are rising twice as fast as the general cost of living, and are expected to keep on soaring, hospital costs to the tune of 250% by 1975, physicians' services by 160% and dental care by 100%. Yet the industry is ill-organized and inefficient, and much of the care given in hospitals is of poor quality. That is what the National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower reported to President Johnson last week. It recommended a variety of remedies, and some preventive medicine...
Four little girls, bright-eyed and decked out in their best dresses, met the press last week at Colorado General Hospital in Denver. Ranging in age from 16 months to two years, all four were gravely ill, and the University of Colorado doctors who described their cases were guarded in discussing the children's prospects for recovery. But merely by being alive, all were making medical history. They had survived a complete liver transplant for periods ranging from 45 to 122 days, longer than any previous patient, for whom the record had been 23 days...
Surprisingly, for a burly, blunt-talking child of the London slums, Guitarist-Lutanist Julian Bream seems to have eardrums as fragile as orchid petals. What he calls the "bloody row and chaos" of contemporary life-jangling telephones, whirring machinery, blaring car horns-can make him physically ill. He has been known to get off elevators before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most...
Malawi has announced that it plans to open diplomatic relations with South Africa. A more ill-timed disclosure would be hard to imagine, as it coincided with the opening of the Organization of African Unity Conference in Kinshasa, Congo...
...threat--yet. But it appears that their scorn was slightly premature. In fact Malawi, not one of the racist target states but an Independent black nation, appears to have been one of the first goals of an increasingly organized movement; the success of other OAU pronouncements bodes ill for Malawi's future with freedom fighters...