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Eastern European states offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
Debaters carrying overstuffed briefcases and index card files gathered in Cambridge this past weekend for the 25th annual Harvard Invitational Debate Tournament...
...knows how many cases there are or have been. Health authorities usually rely on school absenteeism as their best numerical clue, but they were foiled because this season's outbreak occurred during the Christmas holidays. One indisputable index is the number of deaths, mostly among the aged and infirm, resulting from the pneumonia that so often follows flu. In New York City alone the pneumonia deaths during three weeks rose from...
...second-year law student in the course who bought the book said yesterday it was more coherent than the lectures. "It has an excellent index which would be helpful during the take-home exam," he added...
...work? The Department of Labor last week issued an updated edition of its Dictionary of Occupational Titles, used primarily by employment counselors. The 5-lb. catalogue defines, and assigns a nine-digit index number to each of 20,000 job titles, including such esoterica as sword swallower (159.647-010), rock breaker (770.687-034) and brassiere-cup-mold cutter...