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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after the Labor victory in 1945, "Nye" Bevan stood amid the tall black blocks of Bolton's cotton mills in Lancashire and told the assembled workers: "Homes, health, education and social security-these are your birthright." That was quite a different list from the one John Locke had drawn up 260 years ago when he summarized man's inalienable rights as life, liberty and property. For better or worse, most Britons today are more wedded to Bevan's list than to Locke's. "Why is it," exclaimed a tall, exasperated Conservative M.P. over a substantial...
...executive council's job is to review the doctors' list of patients; they have the right to reassign patients if one doctor gets too heavily loaded. If their area is short of doctors, they have the right to keep a physician who wants to move away, from doing so. On the other hand, if their area is "overdoctored," they may refuse to let new doctors move in to practice under the health plan...
...year. The Christmas dinner, crowned but a whole pig, apple in mouth, and the spring dinner with outstanding guests have become K-House traditions. Additional meetings, such as that with Robert Frost this winter, occur not infrequently. Semi-annual Nocturnal Collations--beer parties--and the Spring Formal complete the list of significant events. Activities of this sort have contributed to the House's reputation as the most democratic...
...handed the man $2 and watched him write down my name, address, and telephone number. "You can't possibly lose," he assured me. "Wait until you hit the top of the list, then watch the money come pouring...
...this point I was sold on the whole deal. I had talked over the phone to the person who was on top of the list the day I joined. He was supposed to receive all the money that new members contributed that evening, and he told me he had already gotten over $300 and expected more tomorrow...