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...general criterion used in making the selections for the panels was the extent to which the individual chosen would represent the largest possible regional cross-section. While Israel is certainly an important nation, and deserving of representation on any panel dealing with the problems of the Middle East per se, the fact is the panels deal with a single large issue (economic development, foreign policy, or national and regional aspirations) and the inter-regional ramifications of the question. Since only three panelists could be invited from each area, the three chosen had to be representative of the major population...
...carry malpractice insurance and many feel like sitting pigeons for unscrupulous patients and lawyers. General Counsel C. Joseph Stetler of the A.M.A. blames exaggerated stories of new drugs, methods of treatment and "miracle" surgery, which "lead the public to believe that anything less than a perfect result is per se evidence of negligence." Result: an increased urge to sue. Some doctors insist that only 10% of all malpractice suits have any merit; the rest, they claim, are nothing more than "legalized blackmail...
...Growth for what? For more schools, yes; for reducing unemployment, yes; but for more of all the consumer goods that are epitomized by the catch-phrase "tail-fins," emphatically no. As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Liberal Hour, "There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most." Kennedy's call for growth for growth's sake, or merely to out produce the Russians, is, for some, another grave weakness in his campaign...
...often difficult for partisans of particular educational programs to remember that experiments are not, per se, good things. But the Government-Economics joint tutorial program initiated in Adams and Quincy this fall is among the most promising ideas to come along in recent years...
Statements alleging a disastrous decline of American prestige have no basis in fact, Spiro declared. Although many uneducated Africans tend to identify the United States with European colonialism, he encountered no hatred of America or the white man per se...