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...costs the patient money, but the consultant makes a fine witness for the defense. Doctors are also ordering more diagnostic procedures, especially X rays. Such devices, along with the higher insurance premiums, force up the cost of medical care to all Angelenos, whether they suffer from lawyer's itch...
...Lady's Not For Burning" is a play with characters who are "as much 15th Century as anything." A young man, hearing of a itch hunt in the town, announces to the city's functionaries that he wishes to be hanged. To satisfy their requirements he will even confess to several murders. Things are considerably complicated when he discovers that the witch is an attractive young person and falls in love with...
...Value of Marx. If a nation's mere itch for independence, and not its willingness to follow a democratic way of life, was to be Acheson's touchstone of American aid, then some radical changes in U.S. thinking were called for. Was the U.S. ready to follow him? By Acheson's definition, presumably Franco's Spanish dictatorship was entitled to help. And how about Communist Tito? No longer was the State Department talking about winning him over to the Western orbit. In fact, the State Department was now saying that Tito is more valuable...
Jungles & Flophouses. Down and Out is the largely autobiographical account of Orwell's own depression battle with starvation. He had gone home to India after Eton (where he "learned very little"), and had served five years with the Imperial Police in Burma. The climate, the itch to write and a distaste for British colonial policy sent him back to Europe. Publishers turned him down, his money ran out and soon he became a plongeur (dishwasher) in a Paris hotel...
...high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution; Henry Wallace, a symbol of the idealist gone wild and then sour; Jesse Jones, the hard-nosed banker-baron, Texas Stetson style; Averell Harriman, a symbol of the silver spoon and the itch to do good. If Charles Sawyer was the symbol of anything, he was a symbol of the man who never missed...