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Minimal Care. The Rockefeller researchers discovered that the Chinese health system aims to bring at least minimal medical care to every citizen, largely through the wide use of paramedics known as "barefoot doctors" and a network of spartan but well-staffed clinics and hospitals across the country. "Everyone we saw looked healthy and well fed," said Dr. Maclyn McCarty, a Rockefeller vice president and professor of biomedicine. The Chinese were well informed about what their Western colleagues were doing. They religiously read such scientific publications as the British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed...
...gambling away $250,000 of the organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But as even critics of the P.L.O. concede, most of the Palestinian leaders emulate the ascetic style of Arafat who, despite international renown, dresses in baggy battle fatigues, operates out of a spartan office in a Beirut slum, and indulges in neither whisky, cigarettes nor women...
Vacations are growing more strenuous?occasions more for doing than for sightseeing. It takes an odd mixture of the Spartan and the hedonist to "relax" by boating, hiking, backpacking, climbing, jogging, bicycling, hang-gliding or white-water canoeing. As measured by spending, leisure-time activities have grown to be the chief U.S. industry. Americans are expected to spend more than $160 billion on such leisure and recreation in 1977, and by 1985 the total will probably climb to $300 billion...
...leadership. We're at the mercy of management. If you vote for me, I'll make the union great again." Having delivered that pitch, Harry Patrick, one of three candidates for president of the United Mine Workers, wipes the sweat from his brow and circles the spartan bathhouse of the Eccles mine near Beckley, W. Va., looking for another hand to shake. The miners, encrusted with coal dust and bathed in the harsh glare of mercury-vapor lamps, eye him as they change shifts at midnight. "Don't make no difference who gets elected," grumbles Jim Pavlik...
...question in every Israeli's mind was: Why did the Premier get involved in such tawdry troubles? There was no ready answer. Rabin, educated in a socialist home and trained in the spartan Israeli army, was hardly a playboy. Nonetheless, the Rabins live well by Israeli standards, and Mrs. Rabin has a taste for expensive knickknacks and U.S.-purchased dresses...