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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of living" look trivial by comparison. While the cost of staying alive in America has jumped some 21 per cent since 1960, the cost of staying alive in a hospital has zoomed up by nearly 125 per cent. Drugs an physician's services haven't quite kept pace, but they have both risen by about 45 per cent in the last ten years...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Last Friday was hot. And Mildred, my secretary, was late to work. The dictaphone kept sticking and played anything it recorded back to me backward. "Nathan Sincerely," Sirs Dear:" Not to mention the far east, the gold and uranium rushes, the stabbing by nail of the nine year old boy, and the discovery of a living Neanderthal in the Massachusetts mental hospital "I'm joking of course. I've got it all backwards. The Neanderthal wasn't Neanderthal at all, he was just a brilliant guy. And besides that he didn't live long. He killed himself by swallowing...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...rhythm of Mirna's peaceful breathing. A man ran across a graveyard beneath a moon which changed into his mother's smiling face. The graveyard was full of rows of white crosses which pulled backwards beneath the running man's feet so that he made no progress. But he kept running. The moon kept smiling. Scott thought the moon, perhaps, made his mother force his father into science. She taught us to apologize for him. The crosses whirred by. The father ran in the opposite direction all the time though he did everything his family told him to. The scene...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...surprised at how healthy he seemed, and how little effected he seemed by the holocaust in which he had been a living part. No deeply anguished eyes. No haunted expressions. No nothing. He had accepted it and I haven't. So essentially, it was war adventures that kept my wife waiting. Waiting placidly...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Despite these stumbling blocks, the Atma perservered. Samshak was convinced that it would never fold as long as he kept producing good theatre...

Author: By Stephen D. Mikesell, | Title: The Atma Cries 'Alarum' | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

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