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Laymen who bitterly complain that they cannot find their way through the maze of multiplying medical specialties and subspecialties can take comfort: the fractionation of medical practice has gone so far that the specialists themselves are confused. The professional men's anger and frustration over their internal divisions came out clearly from 1,084 physicians of all types polled by Medical Economics (circ. 150,000). No less than 91% worried about jurisdictional disputes and admitted uncertainty over the problem of where to draw the line...
...instead of upping local taxes. But there is one issue that the Federal Government is entirely competent to deal with: reform of the federal income-tax structure. The present structure, piled up piecemeal over the years, combines steeply rising tax rates that reach a confiscatory 91% with a maze of loopholes and deductions. A millionaire may pay a lower rate of income tax on his gross income than a salary earner who has to scrape to send his children to college. One taxpayer may carry a much heavier tax burden than a neighbor with the same gross income...
...Maze for Money. Once committed, Rose plunged into the project with characteristic energy, planned to make his sculpture's new home in Jerusalem the best money could buy. He retained Isamu Noguchi, a sculptor who doubles in landscape design, to lay out a sloping, five-acre garden adjoining the National Museum where the collection will be displayed on natural rock pedestals in a maze of stone walls, cypresses and jasmine bushes. "When Isamu came up with the maze idea," Billy says, "I knew what he meant right away. I'm an old carney man myself...
...rainy evening in 1881 a weary, bewildered girl of 17 stood in the middle of London's bustling King's Cross Station. A moment before she had stepped off the train from Sheffield, and now she wondered how in the world she would ever thread the maze of the vast city to the house where she had taken service as a nursemaid. Just then an elderly, well-dressed woman with a kindly face stepped up to her. "Can I help you, my dear?" she inquired. Off they went-but not to the right address. They went instead...
From the earth's surface, space has long seemed hardly more than an emptiness between the earth and the stars. But space probers have found that it has a geography as complex as the maze of pipes and conduits under a downtown city street. Last week the Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. reported the discovery of a new and unsuspected duct of ionized particles that leads magnetic waves around the earth...