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This was the Senate version of the Johnson Administration's medicare bill, which wound up with a whopping $7.5 billion-a-year price tag, contained the blueprint for a historic program of health protection for the aged and called for the greatest one-shot increase in social-security benefits since their inception...
They are known in the trade as "gift books," and they assuredly qualify: usually big and expensive, they make handsome presents that flatter the recipient with their implied suggestion that someone cares a lot-and carry no obligation to do more than leaf through them once. But the tag is unnecessarily depreciative, for the best of the gift books can be exhilarating visual as well as literary experiences: passports to fine art the viewer might never otherwise see, inaccessible realms he might never otherwise visit. Among the best of the recent gift books...
...Tag Day, December 9, 1914, the Class of '15 collected funds to buy ambulances for the use of five foreign powers: England, Belgium, France, Austria, and Germany. On May 30, Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15 was killed in action while fighting with the Grenadier Guards of the British Army...
...tag end of a year of churning unrest on U.S. campuses, an old issue flamed anew at two large universities: whether college students should be allowed to hear Communists or other speakers whose politics range far from the U.S. mainstream...
...permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after the death of the child's mother, and the lines were lengthened by those who were as curious about the painting's price tag as about its ageless beauty. Two months ago, at a controversial auction at Christie's auction house in London (TIME, March 26), Titus was hammered down for $2,234,400, a record price for Britain and only $65,000 less than the historic price that New York's Metropolitan Museum paid four...