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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teeth and eyeglasses and imposition of a 30? prescription fee), but the British know that the program has served them well. In a recent survey, 95% of those interviewed rated N.H.S. good to excellent. Moreover, nine out of ten people who have private hospitalization plans still use their government-paid general practitioner as a free family doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Brazilian soccer star and the world's highest-paid professional athlete, scores his 1,000th goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top of the Decade: Sport | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Goodrich's profits have lagged behind those of its prime competitors. Last year the company earned only 3.9% on sales of $1.1 billion, compared with 6% for the industry's most profitable major operator, Firestone. After Northwest's takeover attempt, Keener, who was paid $240,000 last year, allotted each of the divisions a profit target and rigorously trimmed back on money-losing operations. Last week, six days before Christmas, Goodrich closed down a rubber footwear plant in Watertown, Mass-and with it went the jobs of 950 employees. In that case, the closing had been announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Quiet Purge at Goodrich | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Kemper Insurance Group outbid nine other companies for the policy to cover Indianapolis' 123 schools against fire, vandalism and other risks. The school board paid its $126,000 annual premium and had only one major claim-$101,000 for windstorm damage. Last week the board was searching for new coverage. Kemper announced that after the Indianapolis policy expires on March 1 it will not be renewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad Risk in Schools | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...folk tales, the power that changes a frog to a prince is called magic. In life, it is known as nostalgia. Wrapped in it, a newspaper becomes an illuminated manuscript, a vulgar city is transformed into El Dorado. Ben Hecht, once one of the highest-paid scenarists in Hollywood, had a nostalgia factory for a brain; what went in as the apprenticeship of a yellow journalist emerged as gilded celebrations of innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarnished Cherub | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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