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...country's network of company-and state-backed insurance programs assures treatment to virtually everyone; wage earners contribute as little as $5.20 a month to plans that provide lavish benefits. Critics complain that patients overuse the system for such woes as hangovers and general fatigue. Another factor that runs up the costs to the state is the high salaries of doctors, supplemented by their income from filling out prescriptions...
...first TIME cover story on travel in 1956, some 500,000 U.S. tourists were expected in Europe. For this week's sequel, Demarest, a specialist on the changing needs and tastes of U.S. travelers, looks at the revived interest in vacations abroad and the enthusiasm Europeans will lavish on a predicted 4.2 million American visitors...
...from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join the château's six-person "gourmet barge," which costs $6,000 a week to charter, all meals and wines included. Professional travel notes: airline tickets, hotels, tours...
...economy gradually got out of control. Government spending became too lavish. Subway systems under construction in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which have absorbed $2.1 billion so far, are the most expensive per mile in the world. Runaway deficits led to more and more foreign borrowing and fueled relentless inflation, which already averaged 20% a year in the early 1970s. When the global energy crisis hit in 1973, Brazil was overextended and vulnerable. Over the next six years, the country had to pay $35 billion, all of it borrowed, for oil imports...
...wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians...