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...DOCTORS' FEES. One of the prickliest problems involves the system of paying doctors, already angered by the specter of bureaucrats interfering in their practices. Dr. Philip Randolph Lee, Assistant HEW Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, said last week: "We have heard from some sources that physicians have raised their fees in anticipation of Medicare." A guidebook went out last week to some 230,000 physicians reminding them that the Government will pay "reasonable" fees-meaning an amount close to what the doctor usually charges non-Medicare patients in his area...
...area of church-state relations virtually avoided by the Chicago conferees was the field of blue laws. And no wonder: it is one of the prickliest brier patches...
...typical Fernandes performance, the kind that has lifted him to his position as prickliest political pundit in all Brazil. Starting out at 19 reporting for Rio de Janeiro's O Cruzeiro, he bounced from paper to magazine to paper, always making a success, always eventually quitting after a scrap with the boss...
...Rockefeller did some aggressively effective wire-cutting himself at the 55th annual Governors Conference in Miami Beach last week. Leading an outnumbered but united phalanx of Republican Governors, he outmaneuvered the Democrats, achieved a thumping tactical triumph for his party by embarrassing the Democrats on the nation's prickliest domestic issue: civil rights...
...Campaign. Taylor's passion for telling people about the works of free enterprise has made him the West Coast's prickliest burr in the pants of traditionalist businessmen. Los Angeles-born, he graduated from the University of California (1922) and went to work for an iron company which was later merged into Consolidated Steel Corp. In 1934, when Taylor became Consolidated's president, the company was in the red. He overhauled operations, cleaned out the deadwood and put Consolidated into the black. In 1938, when Los Angeles Union Oil, oldest and second largest West Coast oil company...