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...multiphasic testing is being made available to more people. The state of Rhode Island is running a federally financed program that costs only $40 per patient. Many large corporations are also offering the checkups to an increasing number of employees down through the ranks...
...party's old guard does not deny that the new young pols beat them at their own game, but that does not keep them from resenting it-sometimes bitterly and unfairly. Said Rhode Island State Chairman Lawrence McGarry: "McGovern's got draft dodgers going to Miami." The list of party veterans and major officeholders who were shoved out of their delegate seats in Miami Beach reads like a who's who of the Democrats (see box, page 12). Said Delton Houtchens, the Missouri state Democratic chairman who went to Miami Beach as a delegate-at-large...
...event was called the Newport Jazz Festival New York. It was a massive transplant of the same Newport Festival that rotund former Jazz Pianist George Wein, 46, had run for 18 years in a large field hard by Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In recent years, with rock festivals failing on all sides, Newport had become a new chosen land of the Huns of Aquarius. Last year, when a noisy and violent horde broke through a chain-link fence and overran the paying customers while Dionne Warwicke was singing, Wein had enough; he canceled the show. A few days...
Actually, as Wein soon realized, what he could do was to move down the coast a bit and make New York the Bayreuth of jazz. In Rhode Island, he says, "they were never interested in the artistic content of the festival, only how much money it would bring in. What we found out when we moved to New York was that the world was listening, if Rhode Island wasn...
...American overworking, overworrying and overconsuming. For example, Jews in the U.S. have a higher rate of heart disease than Jews in Israel; the same is true of Japanese in the U.S. compared with Japanese in their homeland. The rate of heart disease runs highest in the nation in Rhode Island, New York and Pennsylvania-all heavily urbanized states that have much stress, crowding and pollution. The rate is lowest in Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico, where the living tends to be slower and easier...