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...credit, sponsored by Sen. William Roth (R-Del.), would begin at $100 a year for 1977-78, reaching a $250 ceiling...
...Senate Budget Committee staff member said yesterday that the Roth proposal "will probably die in conference." But Roth's office said that they are "optimistic and hopeful" about the outcome on the conference...
...vast majority of the population. For most adults, write Drs. Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries in a health guide called Take Care of Yourself (Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia...
...person trapped in that joke-Sophie Portnoy, the archetypal castrating Jewish mother, standing over her little boy with a stainless steel bread knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...
...Supreme Court upheld the conviction of New Yorker Samuel Roth, a purveyor of soft-core magazines and books, but drew...