Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admirable company of Boris Pasternak. Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was almost kicked out, he added, "although it is Solzhenitsyn who confers honor on the Union of Writers by being its member, while the union adds nothing to Solzhenitsyn." Then, returning to the hard life of his friend, he paid final tribute to a valiant spirit and, in the process, movingly described the source of intellectual discontent in today's Russia. "A person, in Kosterin's idea, is a thinking being. Therefore, nature has given to him a striving for knowledge, that is, for critically evaluating reality, drawing...
Died. Wendell Corey, 54, character actor and political activist; of a liver ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Corey's blue eyes could reflect the dementia of a paid killer (The Big Knife) or the dedication of a tough-talking psychiatrist (NBC-TV's The Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council...
...report catalogues startling individual abuses--veterinary treatment for a family pet paid for under Medicaid, a dentist collecting $164,000 in seven months from welfare patients, ten doctors averaging $100,000 each off welfare recipients...
Because of the huge sums paid doctors under Medicaid, other important aspects of welfare are neglected--there is little money or time to consider them...
Tickets to the Harvard-Yale game are selling at slightly higher prices this year. One Yale alumnus thought they were worth more than their original $6 price, and paid $160 for a pair, while a Harvard graduate suggested that he might give ten years of suits from his store in exchange for a pair...