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...Womb to Tomb. State-run health in surance for employed workers, which metamorphosed into NHS, celebrates its 50th anniversary in Britain this year. NHS as such is now 13 years old. Most Britons, while they are keenly and vocally aware of its shortcomings, would not want to get along without...
What does such security cost? When wartime coalition governments adopted the womb-to-tomb plan fathered by Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge, it was estimated that NHS might cost only $500 million a year. Workmen's payroll taxes, to be applied to NHS costs, were set at 9? a week, to yield an estimated 10% of total costs, with no charges for prescriptions, eyeglasses or dentistry. The deficit would come from the Treasury's general tax funds...
...Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death...
...Womb & Wing. The purists were horrified, and Saarinen's work was always to be controversial. In his U.S. embassy in London he attempted to adapt a wholly modern building to the Georgian style...
Grosvenor Square. To many critics, the compromise failed. Nevertheless, there was always in Saarinen's designs-from his famous "womb" chair to the soaring, winged, 6,000-ton concrete roof of his TWA terminal at Idlewild to his new Dulles International Airport at Chantilly, Va., with its moving waiting room-a daring, a willingness to experiment with form that few of his contemporaries had. "An architect must have a combination of sensitivity and crust," he said, and he had both...