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...state governments, but also with local governments, with universities and hospitals, with voluntary agencies and professional associations, and with the whole of the business world." Under Medicare, an extraordinary partnership has been forged involving 6,750 hospitals, 2,500 nursing homes, 250,000 physicians, 107 Blue Cross and Blue Shield programs, 26 private insurance carriers, all 50 state health agencies and several branches...
...bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because the Montagnards have formed a living shield around the woman they now call Ya Pagang Tih-"Big Grandmother of All Medicine...
...himself wrote the majority opinion in a third case approving the tactics of a U.S. narcotics agent, who phoned Boston Marijuana Peddler Duke Lee Lewis at home, called himself "Jimmy the Polack" and arranged for Lewis to sell him eleven "bags" (71.5 grams) for $100. Although the Fourth Amendment shields a man's home, said Warren, a disguised agent is fully entitled to pierce the shield without a warrant when the home has actually become "a commercial center to which outsiders are invited for unlawful business...
Less than a month after disclosing; Soviet efforts to erect a defensive shield of antiballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed last; week that both Russia's defensive missile system and its long-range offensive missiles are going into place faster than U.S. intelligence sources had anticipated. The Russians, it is now estimated will have from 650 to 700 iCBMs in; place by 1968 instead of the 600 previously expected. Of greater consequence, its new anti-missile system, which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed...
...while protecting peaceful demonstrators' constitutional rights. And many police efforts are embarrassing failures. Although good intelligence work prevents and solves crime, few police can afford the time to study the widely varying plans and personalities of protest groups. As a result, they often send too few men to shield pickets from counter-pickets, or they go to the other extreme and send so many that they cripple law enforcement elsewhere. Worse, too many police respond too readily to demonstrators' taunts. And when choleric cops blow their tops, the skilled rabble-rouser is delighted, for it is "police brutality...