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...dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats and the cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just...
...trouble is that such a tidy arrangement collides with the fundamental American proposition that led to a government of checks and balances: beware of power concentrated in the hands of one man. The patchwork U.S. banking system is overdue for an overhaul, but hardly the kind that Patman has in mind. The danger is that Patman's polemics may splatter his financial foes with mud and lead to a legislative muddle. For all that, even his opponents have considerable admiration for Patman. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman James L. Robertson once complimented him for "keeping the System on its toes...
...Patchwork Program. In Washington, Medicaid is a headless monster. To the extent that it is run at all, it is controlled by one of the most cumbrously named offices in government: the Medical Services Administration of HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Service. Its commissioner, Dr. Francis L. Land, was summarily dropped from the post last July at the height of congressional criticism over Medicaid's failings. The Administration has still not replaced Land...
Congress designed Medicaid as a patchwork program. Each state could join after its plan was approved by HEW. The minimum benefits, which every state must provide for all "public assistance" (meaning welfare) recipients, are 1) in-and out-patient hospital care, 2) other laboratory and X-ray services, 3) nursing-home treatment and physicians' services. The patient's eligibility depends on the state's definition of need. That may be anywhere between $2,448 family annual income, as in Oklahoma, and $5,000, in New York...
Born in Hupeh province to a poor peasant family, Li received at best a patchwork education and in his teens was apprenticed to a carpenter. His chairs and tables regularly collapsed, however, and he was fired. By his early 20s, Li had joined the party and soon won a reputation for unquestioning loyalty to Mao Tse-tung and for his talent at organizing effective guerrilla bands. After the civil war ended in 1949, Li rose steadily in the party's central China hierarchy. In 1954, he was summoned to Peking as Minister of Finance...