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With seeming good reason, the New England train conductor worried about his heart. For ten years he had lived with a diagnosis of coronary artery disease, "confirmed" by several doctors. He was retired and lived on workmen's compensation. But the diagnosis was deceptive. The conductor happened to be one of an unknown number of Americans who so fear heart trouble that they feel the symptoms without ever having the disease. In fact, the conductor's "illness" meant so much to him that he lived for nothing else. When doctors later could find no heart disease...
Bernard Zehrfuss, 48, who built his reputation with low-cost housing units in North Africa, took over on site planning, bulldozed the unconventional structures through Paris' complex building codes, coordinated multilingual teams of workmen...
Younis has bought new equipment, trimmed the canal banks with the help of 30,000 fellaheen digging by hand, and dredged the canal to the old maximum depth of 35 feet. The workmen, pilots and supervisory staff are paid from booming revenues. Younis says the authority took in about $110 million last year, and paid $15 million into Nasser's treasury as profit. His hastily recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement...
...mention of governmental health insurance usually evokes loud charges of socialized medicine and many of the other cliches which make discussion of American economics into semi-religious issues. Yet Nelson Rockefeller--not very renowned for his socialistic ideas--advocated in a recent campaign speech that New York extend its workmen's compensation laws to include financial protection against catastrophic medical expenses. Harry Truman, some years ago, also suggested a national health insurance scheme. Such an extension of public welfare activity would be both beneficial and practical...
...Lieut. Colonel G. W. Meates was attracted to the Darent River site by an old report that workmen digging postholes more than 200 years ago found a mosaic floor. Moving in with a crew of diggers, he quickly proved that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...