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More specifically, said Ewing: "A scant 20% of our people are able to afford all the medical care they need. About half our families-those with incomes of $3,000 or less-find it hard, if not impossible, to pay for even routine medical care. Another 30% of American families with incomes between $3,000 and $5,000 would have to make great sacrifices or go into debt to meet the costs of a severe or chronic illness...
...Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine*) as the Firebird and Francisco Moncion as the Prince brought a touchdown roar from the audience. In the second scene, Balanchine managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that let Choreographer Balanchine, Conductor Leon Barzin and the whole cast...
Leonard Bernstein '39 came back to Harvard last Tuesday. In the scant ten years since his graduation, Bernstein has had many handfuls of musical confetti flung upon him: two symphonies, two ballets, a Broadway musical, and the official blessing of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Now he is rising in the field of conducting, and Tuesday's concert added to his already brilliant record in a not unenviable post as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...This whole business is a black mark on American history. Those who, like me, were captives of the Japanese in Manila knew what was going on there and something of the measure of Yamashita's guilt as a "war criminal," and I think few of us approved the scant justice he received in his trial, or the ignominious fashion in which he was put to death...
...thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp., with capital of $20,000,000 (before devaluation), to finance independents for five years. In 13 months of operation, the corporation has about...