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...according to Ruth K. Porritt, Hilles librarian, it's already too late. "We took up the carpeting on August 9, after the summer school program," Miss Porritt said yesterday. "The tiling was ordered in mid-August from Spain, and should be here in a week or two," she added...
...most baffling question of all about the ground war is raised by the Communists' much-heralded "third offensive" against Saigon. Anticipated as a follow-up on the February Tet offensive and the second-round attack against the capital in May, it has been thought imminent since mid-August. Yet there is still no clear sign that it is coming; in fact, the pressure is off Saigon and the other major cities. Saigon has not been shelled in three weeks...
Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...
...automobile industry, where production dropped by 24% in the first seven months of 1967, expectations are general for an upturn in the fourth quarter. Volkswagen, which took the hardest beating, went back to full shifts in mid-August and now has a six-day working week. Companies returned from Berlin's recent radio and TV fair with full order books. Production of color TV sets is sold out till year's end. Inventories in industry as a whole have been running short, with an increasing number of companies about to start replenishing them...
...pinning high hopes on a massive "Watch Now, Pay Later" campaign to be launched in mid-August. Customers will be offered the whole range of models, from the $329.95 set to a $1,600 combination radio-phonograph-TV console, with first payment due 90 days after purchase. Virtually all the other makers are expected to fall into line. Says an RCA executive confidently: "I don't think the public has soured on color...