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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical researchers produce certainly save more lives. But they also gobble more dollars in the process. And the other major component of the hospital cost increase--higher wages for cooks, janitors, and the other prosaic workers who help care for the patients -- helped solve another obvious social need. The semi-sweatshop laber practices of the 1950's hospitals had to end; unfortunately, ending them meant hiking hospital charges another step...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...presented realistically, with sets, costumes and actions designed so that the audience could "feel a good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's Tightrope Walker | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Last week, Brown criticized the course for the semi-independence of its sections and the lack of certified sectionmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel 149 Section Leaders Plan Strategy to Retain Radical Course | 3/12/1969 | See Source »

...decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic women, a semi-transvestite, and other odd characters who are for the most part linked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shortcuts | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Harvard will meet Clarkson--winner over B.C. in a 4-2 upset--in the semi-final round of the tournament Friday at the Boston Garden. B.U., which defeated R.P.I. 4-2 last night, will face Cornell--a 3-0 victor over St. Lawrence--in the other half of the draw...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Icemen Edge U.N.H., 4-3, On Bauer's Overtime Goal | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

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