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...exception to Parkinson's Law that everything which is tends to persist and everything that does tends to expand and take on bigger things is the Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
VICTORINE (380-pp.)-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Messner...
Ailing with the tremors of Parkinson's disease, Harold Burton decided that since he had reached the full-pay-retirement age of 70, he would step down. In his $35,000-a-year retirement, he plans to do some writing on Supreme Court history, hopes that "the Chief Justice may have jobs for me where I can help...
...addition to these large-scale forums, the School sponsored a series of weekly speeches by various notables. C. Northcote Parkinson, a robust, droll English-ganization of his perceptive lectures...
...sometimes thought that professors teach at the Summer School for purely man whose sly humor masks his worldwide reputation as a scholar on Oceanic History, spoke on "Parkinson's Law," to the delight of his capacity-plus audience, and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave a series of humorous character sketches...