Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide some 6,750 units. Along with their apartments, Leisure Worldlings are supplied with free drugs, 24-hour visiting-nurse service, laboratory facilities, and a staff of ten fulltime doctors and 26 registered nurses-all at a cost of roughly $100 a month after a relatively modest down payment...
...most Tristan islanders, it seems a bad exchange.*Looking at his first TV show, an old man said, "I don't think much of it; the people are too small." After making a down payment on a transistor radio, another Tristan islander was baffled by the bill for the next installment, asked, "How often does a man have to pay for the same thing in h'England?" On Tristan da Cunha, the only wage-earning job was in the local crayfish cannery, where everyone got the same pay. In England, the visitors could not comprehend the idea...
...Reader Bennett's figures are correct. But the $13 figure is what the Administration figures the "average taxable wage earner" would pay specifically for medicare, eliminating the portion of the increased payment that would go to old age assistance...
...hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos government-suspended last February to help force Phoumi into the coalition-was resumed...
...Telegraph Corp., which recently lost a telephone system to Rio Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises a down payment of 10%, with the rest to be repaid on a long-term basis provided the company agrees to reinvest at least 75% of the total in Brazil...