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...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...
...expect that a large percentage of its members will become ill than would be the case for Harvard's normally healthy undergraduates. Yet its rates are only $23.80 per year for a Single Membership (compared to the Hygiene Department's $45). And for their money, hospitalized participants get x-rays, regardless of cost, a maximum of 120 days for each separate hospital admission, laboratory tests, drugs, serums, oxygen, anesthesia, and all hospital services, whether surgical or medical that are required. Members can choose any hospital and any physician, with the exception of some ten percent of Massachusetts doctors...
...cost of caring for such minor ailments must not constitute a very considerable proportion of the Department's expenses, since all the patient usually receives is advice to go buy a box of aspirin and a package of cough drops at Billings and Stover. Should the student require x-rays, anesthetics, special materials, or special laboratory examinations, he must pay for them himself. Care in Stillman is limited to one week per term, and Stillman does not handle cases of major illness or those involving surgery. All these facts suggest that Harvard students are compelled to pay more and receive...
...wanted first to recall the struggles of the famous "Three Days of Glory" [when Bourbon Charles X was dethroned] with a march both terrible and despairing, to be played during the procession; then to present a sort of funeral discourse or farewell addressed to the illustrious dead . . . and finally to intone a hymn of glory as an apotheosis, to be played while the eyes of all should be fixed on the tall column [in the Place de la Bastille], crowned by the figure of Liberty...
...Public Health Service's unspectacular mass X rays of the population (for early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite...