Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finch's stock in the Administration and on Capitol Hill, Nixon last week declared his "complete and unqualified support" of a set of HEW proposals to combat the rising costs of health care. Warning that the nation faced a "massive crisis," he placed his presidential imprimatur on a report prepared by Finch and Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, who was named Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs after the Knowles appointment collapsed...
Rhetoric, Not Remedies. The report was stronger on rhetoric than remedies. Blaming the high (average: $70 a day) cost of hospital care on the previous Administration, it warned that the federal share of the Medicaid program of health care for the poor alone could sextuple its $2.5 billion annual cost by 1975 unless draconic measures are adopted. The HEW message proposed a combination of voluntary action by the medical profession and hospitals, plus close supervision by the Government. HEW, the report said, will increase and intensify its programs for reviewing drug utilization and effectiveness, tighten its surveillance of Medicare-Medicaid...
...always lived up to their well-deserved reputation for fair play toward the accused criminal. They have not, for example, developed anything like the body of Supreme Court case law that-at least in theory-restricts police in the U.S. Coon and Harris, in a paperback entitled The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law, claim that British bobbies at times break into homes without warrants and on the flimsiest evidence, often entering at night to heighten "the shock effect." Release is helping to discourage such arbitrary police behavior. "My impression is that the police are being much more...
...that the average citizen's instinctive concern for his fellow human beings is too often restrained by a taut, subtle web of social pressures. Particularly in groups and crowds, write John M. Darley of Prince ton and Bibb Latane of Ohio State in a recent and already classic report, "un til someone acts, no one acts...
...dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical abstraction. Chief among these are the art designer Ester Krumbachova and directors Jan Nemec and Ver Chytilova; Nemec's Report in the Party and the Guests and Chytilova's Daisies are its best representatives...