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...other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered a reasonable fee. If the doctor's bill was for $10 and this is fully allowed, the patient pays only $2. But if the bill...
Strange to say, the Detroit TV commentator whose question brought on George Romney's Viet Nam "brainwashing" response spends less than half of his waking hours as a newsman. During daylight, Lou Gordon, 49, is a $50,000-a-year middleman for a women's-clothing manufacturer. He wears slick suits, a toupee-and sometimes a gun. By moonlight, he is a part-time expose specialist on Detroit radio (WXYZ) and UHF television (WKBD). For more than a decade, he has been collecting ugly facts in Detroit and spilling them out to a mildly fascinated public. Always...
Lion & Unicorn will act as a kind of transatlantic middleman offering "the best of Britain." From offices in London, it will counsel British concerns on what they can sell to Americans-and how to go about selling it. Meanwhile in the U.S., now from a New York office and eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes...
...Middleman on viola: The in fighting for advancement that goes on among the more populous violin desks is not for him; that is why he switched over from the violin years ago. The cerebral sort, he lives for chamber music, which offers more challenge than the routine supporting role that most composers give his instrument...
...stimulated by the success of mail-order merchandising and the paperback revolution. Even today, perhaps only 2% of the population ever sets foot in a conventional bookstore-and there are only about 1,500 of those. But the U.S. letter-carrier has become the middleman in an enterprise that accounts today for about 15% of the book volume. All told, mail-order houses and book clubs, such as TIME-LIFE Books and the Reader's Digest Book Club, deliver $181 million worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. The market has bred a host of specialty...