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...gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed by the brain of a badly brought-up six-year...
...Communists to persecute him along with younger missionaries, saying: "The others have done no more nor less than I." Other church folk due to come home: Levi A. Lovegren, 66, supervisor of the Baptist missionaries in western China, imprisoned since January 1951 for "espionage": Sarah Perkins and Dorothy Middleton Presbyterian missionaries to a colony of lepers at Lienhsien, imprisoned since February 1951 for "sabotage." Points of Divergence. U.S. Ambassador Johnson is now committed to move on to Point Two of the agenda for Geneva, namely: "settlement of certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China...
...meeting future increases. Dr. Middleton will be confronted by a unique set of problems. More than half his patients -and most of the waiting list of applicants-are psychiatric cases, 14% are tuberculous; "the turnover is slow, keeps 90% of VA hospital beds filled (compared with 85% for non-VA hospitals). Thanks to congressional pork-barreling, many VA hospitals are sparsely occupied white elephants, e.g., a modern, 1,000-bed general hospital in Dublin, Ga., has only 385 beds...
Appomattox & the Future. One of the most serious problems Dr. Middleton faces is the shortage of doctors on the VA staff. The VA now employs 4,427 full-time doctors, whose salaries range between $5,500 and $12,800 a year. But they are not allowed to practice on the side, which keeps many specialists out-and more specialists is precisely what the VA needs. One growing attraction to doctors is the VA's impressive research program and such well-equipped centers as Sawtelle. where ,they can go on studying anything from cancer to schizophrenia...
...Director Middleton knows that his job will not get easier in the years ahead, even if the U.S. remains at peace. As the U.S.'s vast veteran population grows older, more veterans will suffer from chronic illnesses and require their country's care. Dr. Middleton can point to a historical example: U.S. outlay for Civil War veterans reached its peak in 1898, fully 33 years after Appomattox...