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...refurbished National Capitol, the government held rehearsals, while sightseers by the thousands crowded in to see the decorations. Hotels, pensiones and even some private dwellings were booked up for about 500 delegates and assistants, who will jam the 410-year-old Andean city (altitude...
...Jam Breaks. Last week, in the old India Office in London, the logjam broke after ten days of hard-driving pressure, stepped up by the Czech crisis. The Big Three of the West (the U.S., Britain and France) began the conference with a sensible and long-delayed step-admission of the Little Three (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg). The Benelux countries depend so closely on German industry that they insisted on a settlement. France yielded along the logical lines of compromise. The agreement in principle looks toward a Ruhr that will be politically part of Germany, but an international control...
...microphones carried the music over the French national radio, the BBC, Swiss. Belgian and Monte Carlo stations, the Finnish, Polish and Swedish networks. When the sessions in the opera house were over for the night, players from all the bands swarmed into Nice's nightclubs to play jam sessions until dawn...
What's news about traffic jams? Only that they are getting worse, that no remedy is in sight, and that millions of Americans are delayed and annoyed by them every day, without exactly realizing that the nuisance is, quite possibly, permanent. TIME'S Paul O'Neil wrote "The Last Traffic Jam" (Dec. 15, 1947) which, by obvious exaggeration, got over a point that was, in a way, news to nobody. The story's details were not fantasy. Researcher Marianna Albert rode in taxis for a whole day to get the kind of specifics that made...
...their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...