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...official state program: e.g., posting "fair" fees in doctors' offices and pushing prepayment plans. Such steps, Dr. Sudan believes, would improve relations between the general practitioner and his patients. A.M.A. has not yet changed its stand; but now (perhaps on the principle of "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em"), A.M.A. officials might be less nervous about rebellion in Colorado...
...felt that the nation had garnered all the fruits of this production victory. In throwing off all controls, the U.S. had bet that industry could pour out enough goods to lick the wartime inflation. However, the cost of living went up from 153.3 to 166 during 1947 (1941 figure: 105.2). Inflation, if judged only by $1 a pound butter, 85? a dozen eggs and 89? a pound bacon, was worse at year's end than at the start...
Menzel has won this prize three times out of the six that it has been awarded since 1926. He won the first prize offered in 1926 when associated with the Lick Observatory at the University of California. In 1828 he shared it with P. R. Gerasimovie of the Harvard College Observatory for a paper on which they collaborated...
John Kemper's earliest memories are of life as an Army brat, trailing his father, an infantry officer, from post to post, getting a lick-&-a-promise schooling. At West Point, John managed the lacrosse team and was president of the class of '35. Four years later, he went back to the Point to teach history...
...cannot lick something with nothing," Wallace says. "You cannot stop UMT without putting something better before the American people." He goes on to advocate universal disarmament and a world police force as a possible alternative...