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Edible Paper. In Manhattan this week, officials of the Aluminum Association and The Rust Engineering Co. announced plans for a $15.8 million recycling plant near Washington. The plan has been submitted for consideration to the nonprofit National Center for Solid Waste Disposal, Inc., which evaluates and promotes waste-disposal techniques presented by various industries. If such industries are willing to share the cost, the plant will serve as a "national laboratory" where municipalities and private contractors can shop for ideas...
...plans for building a number of units for elderly people. And the Cambridge Corporation-a nonprofit organization started by Harvard and M. I. T.- is active throughout the city in preparations for building "housing for people." Model Cities also has concrete plans for construction...
...official referee in such matters is the private, nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, which judges by scrutinizing real gross national production, unemployment, corporate profits and other indicators. N.B.E.R.'s experts are now strenuously debating the correct label to place on the slump. Says Vice President F. Thomas luster: "We're right on the fine edge between calling it the most severe downturn that was not a recession-or one of the mildest recessions since World War II. It could go either...
Irked at what they called "flagrant disregard for the safety of children," the Consumers Union and the Children's Foundation, both nonprofit groups, threatened last week to sue HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson for failure to use the emergency powers. "This is inexcusable inattention," said Morris Kaplan, Consumers Union technical director. "How many children have to be maimed or killed at Christmas before HEW acts...
Even so, U.S. doctors' fees are rising twice as fast as consumer prices; hospital costs are soaring five times faster. Neither public nor nonprofit private insurance is adequate to meet present or projected health requirements. In 1968, despite Medicaid, 20% of all Americans under 65 had no hospital, 22% no surgical and 97% no dental insurance...