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...treat the poor for nothing. But an articulate minority want the Government to pay the medical bills of the indigent, also the expenses of medical schools, research institutions and hospitals. When the American Medical Association meets in San Francisco June 13, this doctors' quarrel, now a distant thunderhead, is expected to break into a real storm...
...Elmira, N. Y., where the Soaring Society of America was holding its eighth annual meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds...
...hysterical exhibition of peanut politics in Washington has unquestionably contributed its thunderhead to the previously clear horizon. A group of radicals are dictating the tax measures of the country, and the Mellon Bill has seemingly been sidetracked. Senators and Congressmen are vastly interested in "putting themselves on record" and in putting their opponents in a hole. After Easter, Presidential politics will probably inject an even greater element of uncertainty into the business situation...