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...Compromise. Witness after wit ness before the Neuberger committee testified that the most promising ap proach to Preventicare is called "multiphasic testing," a program that the California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has been offering its mem bers ever since...
...Kaiser multiphasic checkup con sists of 20 computer-oriented tests given by a team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
...Brazilian investors have not taken full advantage of the situation, but foreigners are showing a lively interest. Willys-Overland, 38%-owned by Kaiser Industries, two months ago began assembling Jeeps near the Nordeste city of Recife, where Kelvinator is already building refrigerators. Firestone plans an $11 million tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant...
...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
...honor, ends up posing questions no more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...