Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persons 65 and over. The basic benefit is 60 days of free hospital care, after the patient pays the first $40. Another benefit is a maximum of 100 days in a nursing home. The bill also raises social security benefits an average of 7%, retroactive to last Jan. 1. Cost for the first full year: an estimated $6.5 billion. Signed into law last week...
...post-Stalin push for respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...
...carat DeLong ruby. Chapter II: the cops picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India (TIME, Jan. 15). Chapter III: New York's gang-busting District Attorney Frank Hogan, 63, disclosed that the DeLong ruby had wound up in the hands of some Miami usurers. They were asking $21,000 ransom, and at first Frank Hogan agreed. But 48 hours later, the D.A. snorted, "My office will...
...TAXES: Washington has no intention of canceling the second stage of its excise-tax cuts, scheduled to increase consumer purchasing power by another $1.5 billion annually beginning Jan. 1. It will probably postpone further reductions in income taxes, which some federal economists had hoped for next year...
...revival of some of the benefits enjoyed by service veterans of World War II and the Korean War. The new measure would give educational allowances and housing assistance to those who have served at least six months since the last G.I. bill lapsed on Jan. 31, 1955. Some 5,000,000 already would be eligible under the new bill. Opposed by the Administration, the bill would cost an estimated $1.9 billion through 1970. It now goes to the House...