Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VA medical program's size and cost is a controversial law, first laid down by Congress in 1924: although applicants for treatment with service-connected injuries get first priority, other veterans must be taken in as "beds are available," provided they need hospitalization and show they cannot pay for private care. Result: of an average of 113,000 patients in VA hospitals on a given day, more than two-thirds are being treated for non-service-connected ailments. The law is strongly backed by the American Legion, but is damned by the American Medical Association as "an opening wedge...
White Elephants & Research. To ease Newcomer Middleton's task and cut future costs, President Eisenhower last month ordered VA treatment for non-service-connected ailments ended for men entering the service after Feb. 1. Even so, some 21,300,000 veterans (plus 3,200,000 others still in the armed forces) stay eligible for the old free treatment; indeed, the VA hospital patient load is expected to increase 4% next year...
Columnist Bill Gold, of the Washington Post and Times Herald, recently reported that he had discovered an unusual system of reading TIME which is used by Charles E. Randall of McLean, Va...
Robert M. O'Nell '56 and Richard C. Anderson '56 finished first and second in the individual speakers' ratings, but the Harvard debating team came in third in the William and Mary Debating Tournament at Williamsburg, Va., Friday and Saturday...
...life Rubinstein and his money attracted swarms of women, most of them beautiful and taller by several inches than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...