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Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
...majority of miners are members of prepaid medical-care plans conducted jointly by mine owners and the union. But doctors are often appointed by favoritism (with the union conniving) and patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...
California Physicians Service, a plan for voluntary prepaid medical care, is a favorite American Medical Association candidate to beat off socialized medicine. This week the C.P.S. plan scored a noteworthy coup: at one stroke it spread over much of the West. Teaming up with similar plans in seven other western states (Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), C.P.S. set up a system of reciprocal services which will cover 1,000,000 members...
...Democrat," but I have not observed your criticizing any Republican member of the House for doing the same thing. You insinuated, at least, that I was mailing that report free to all my constituents. The fact is that the campaign committee out in California advises me that they prepaid the postage on these reports. However, both you and your readers should know that, as Congressman, I did frank several hundred of these to constituents after paying about $600 to have them printed...
Growing Pains. This phenomenal growth has all been within the last decade. It began one day in the late '20s in Dallas when 1,500 schoolteachers asked Baylor University Hospital if it would furnish three weeks prepaid care for a fixed, per-person payment of $6 a year. The hospital, scenting a dependable source of income, said...