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...HEALTH. Another expansion of federal medical services that would go beyond the medicare program for the aged due to start July 1, authorize multibillion-dollar increases in expenditures intended to 1) attract more doctors to the U.S. Public Health Service through increased incentives such as higher pay, 2) treble grants to communities that organize coordinated assaults on local health problems, and 3) renovate the nation's hospitals-one-third of which, according to Johnson, "are now in obsolete condition," yet face a 15% patient load increase because of medicare...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Supersonic Jet Race," a report on the multibillion-dollar commercial aviation duel between Europe...
...most valuable deposit in Switzerland's bulging banks is secrecy, which the Swiss have shrewdly used to lure shy money from all over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss...
...department-store parking lots in some sections of Seattle were practically deserted, and on normally busy Saturdays the aisles of southend supermarkets were almost bare. Boeing, the city's biggest employer and once the nation's largest defense contractor, was on the ropes. It had lost the multibillion-dollar TFX fighter contract to General Dynamics and had its contract for the Dyna-Soar manned spacecraft abruptly canceled. Its defense business had fallen by $150 million since 1962, and its work force had dropped by 12,000 to 92,100. Boeing was undergoing an agony that afflicts many...
...securities a day. After he died a year ago, two-thirds of the firm's capital of $18 million went to his estate. C. J. Devine's 14 remaining partners were left with only $6,000,000 -hardly enough to organize muscular syndicates for bidding on multibillion-clollar bond issues. The partners went shopping for greater resources...