Self-Discipline and Health Care Costs in the 1970s
The piece argues that private and public self discipline curb inflation, but health care costs rose rapidly. It explains Medicare and Medicaid underpay hospitals pushing higher private charges, outlines the prospective payment system PPS to fix this, and notes PPS trials in Maryland and New Jersey with hopes for nationwide adoption.
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Congress
Maryland
New Jersey
Shultz’s fragile Lebanon accord amid Beirut ruins
In Beirut the Shultz brokered plan seeks withdrawal of Israeli Syrian and Palestinian forces from Lebanon to end the war. Syria’s sign-on remains uncertain amid Saudi and Soviet pressure. The accord aims to end hostilities, allow border patrols, and spark six month talks on broader peace with Israel and Lebanon.
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Beirut
George Shultz
Lebanon
Shultz
Reagan
Middle East
Israel
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Soviet Union
Palestine Liberation Organization
Mideast
Camp David
Egypt
U.S
Begin
Spain
Jordan
West Bank
PLO
Hussein
Controlling Minds Through Burning Books
Fifty years ago Berlin citizens watched students burn works by Mann Einstein Freud Proust as the Third Reich demolished unfit ideas. The author warns similar censorship thrives today, citing Martha's Vineyard church burnings of books and records deemed satanic trash and urges vigilance against thought control.
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Berlin
Germany
Thomas Mann
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Marcel Proust
Third Reich
Martha’s Vineyard
Playboy
Orwell on Hitler and the modern chaos he spawned
The essay argues Hitler was not a unique devil but a twisted moralist whose rise exploited fragile modern civilization. It contrasts Orwell's paradoxical sympathy with Hitler's vanity and self pity, and situates him within a century of failed religious, moral, and political restraints.
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Hitler
George Orwell
Orwell
Wagner
Chaplin
Germany
Jack the Ripper
Stalin
H.G. Wells
Bernard Shaw
Wells
Dear Dr Graham Letter on coping with loss and faith
A grieving husband writes of anger at God after his wife’s death from cancer. The counselor urges gratitude for past joys, honesty with God about pain, and repentance and healing, citing comfort God offers to those who mourn and the promise from Isaiah 61:3.
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DR. Graham
B.H
God
Christ
Dating looks in photos reveal era through hats and hair
The piece notes how facial hair hats and haircuts date photos from 1890 onward. It cites Russell Baker on hats dating wearers and lists styles from derbies to pork pies and stingy brims. Advice: avoid dated looks by stage costume or posing naked with a head covering.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Funnyman
Baker
Adam
Charlie
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