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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close Look. The Senate investigators who looked into Medicaid also drew attention to some huge payments under Medicare, the federal program for Americans over 65. In Houston, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey's surgery team collected $202,959, and Dr. Denton A. Cooley's, $193,124. Here again the fees do not appear exorbitant. In all, 1,050 operations were performed, with 50 or more surgeons taking part. Complicated open-heart techniques, including the implantation of artificial heart valves and pacemakers, were involved. Even so, the average cost to Medicare for each operation was roughly $380-a modest figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicaid: Modest Fees, Large Returns | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Fraternal Twins | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Devastating Attack. With a pitching staff that has been only occasionally impressive the Twins have had to depend on heavy hitting and alert base running to maintain their league lead. Three players are hitting over .300, and the team's average .272 is the highest in the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Fraternal Twins | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Harvard officials last spring denied the reports that the Patriots would play in the Stadium, but rumors persisted that the team would be temporarily let into the long-desired stadium if the state legislature approved a bill to give them a permanent stadium. The legislature has not yet done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joan Baez Will Begin Concerts At the Stadium | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

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