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...undistinguished landscape by Van Gogh, L'Hôpital de St. Paul á St. Rémy, joined the no longer select club of certified million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility...
...some answers, Psychiatrist Er nest L. Hartmann, 36, advertised in Bos ton and New York papers for long and short sleepers to engage in an eight-night "sleep-in" at Boston State Hos pital's Sleep and Dream Laboratory, which Hartmann directs. His findings in dicate that such people differ from or dinary sleepers - and each other - not so much physically as psychologically...
...Medicare marked its third birth day last week, its growing pains were all too evident. Both Medicare, the fed erally financed program that pays hos pital bills for all Americans over 65, and the related Medicaid, which is financed jointly by Washington and the states and assists the poor of all ages, have been plagued by huge cost underestimates, administrative tangles and messy scandals. Now doctors who treat patients under both programs will have to contend with the Internal Revenue Service and Senate investigators...
...home, who still need some, but not 24-hour, nursing care, and who can fend for them selves in a dining room. The planners have not proved very persuasive. Hos pital administrators give lip service to the idea, but little more...
...vigor with which he had challenged Hitler. Unlike Nazism, Barth argued, Communism was a totally materialistic philosophy whose frank atheism represented no threat to the internal authenticity of the church. He thus refused to protest the Communist invasion of Hungary-although when a friend visited him in the hos pital last summer and asked about his health, Barth growled: "I'm fine, but the Czechs...