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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become known as virtually the only doctor willing to treat the poor, especially Negroes. "Even before this Medicaid," said one patient, "Dr. Polansky would treat you even if you didn't have the money." Polansky has had to keep his office open seven days a week, and to work twelve-hour days except on Tuesdays and Saturdays, when he let himself off after nine hours. As for his charges, Blue Shield itself notes that they "are not only moderate, but are below average in many significant cases." One example: he charges only $90 for delivering a baby...

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

...largest maze in the world and, according to Ayrton, "the only one of stone since the 4th or 5th century B.C." The Erpf maze contains 1,680 feet of passageway, with brick walls running from six to eight feet in height. Ayrton considers the work "environmental sculpture." Erpf considers it "an esthetic experience, a symbol in a world so caught up with scientific rationalism it doesn't know where it's going. You can't get to the center of a maze by going straight for it. You have to be indirect. The way to attain something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aesthetics: Knossos in the Catskills | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Both styles require a breaking-in period, like contact lenses, before the wearer can work lip to full-time use. Even the most dedicated clog-hoppers admit that the shoes are duds going up-or downhill. Esthetically, the clogs rank somewhere between unattractive and downright ugly. But mere ugliness has not stopped fashion trends in the past, and anyway, clogs are unbeatable for the beach or for wearing in and around water. They also solve one of the livelier problems of urban living. Says Mrs. Elliott Erwitt, wife of a Manhattan photographer: "Cockroaches haven't got a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Cloggy Days | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...cardinals, his great bronze doors of St. Peter's in Rome, and his role as friend, confidant and portraitist of Pope John XXIII. It was altogether fitting, then, that this summer Manzù should become the only living Italian art ist to have a museum dedicated to his work alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Monument for a Humanist | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Bernice considers such tactics just another form of squeeze play. "The tracks have managed to supply female jockeys with the necessary facilities, and I am sure baseball could do the same," she says. "As for the language, well, it's no different from working in a factory. And after all, it's what you are that counts, not your job. When I work a game I am an umpire; the rest of the day I am a lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Squeeze Play | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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