Rising Medicare costs push hospital bills higher nationwide
In Our Opinion the Blue Cross Association notes hospital costs have surged since World War II and Medicare. In 1967 costs are expected to rise 10 to 12 percent, with 1966 the largest year on record. If Medicare expands, costs likely worsen. a reassessment is needed to avoid deteriorating care and runaway prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Blue Cross Association
Walter J. McNerney
Blue Cross
Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Unwitting fashion setters spark modest pride in thrift wear
The piece notes a nationwide fad for wearing old clothes, praising those who started the trend long before it became popular. It cites a Playboy Club strike by forty two bunny waitresses and questions whether Bunnies differ from other workers, suggesting customers feel duped by paying for the experience.
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Editorial
New York City
Playboy Club
Impressions of Inez Topless Tellers Warn of Credit Card Era
In a reflective column, George Smythe laments a cashless age driven by bank credit cards. He recalls bankers of old, cites looming cash disappearance, and imagines a world where topless tellers signal the era. He notes royal and French attitudes toward money as foils. He predicts when topless tellers appear, the time to move money ashore will arrive.
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Inez Robb
George Smythe
Richard Burton
George
Omar Khayyam
Little Nell
Lotus Land
Duke of Windsor
H R.H
France
Haiphong dispute dominates Johnsons wartime policy
Washington worries as Ho Chi Minh rejects peace overture and Joint Chiefs push to mine Haiphong Harbor. Moscow and Beijing press Ho Chi Minh while Johnson consults with Wilson and Kosygin. SEC probes Schenley Lorillard merger rumors and Glen Alden profits. Three Red Guards flee to Formosa, judging free press harshly. Congress fixates on Adam Clayton Powell seating amid early 90th Congress clashes.
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Washington
Ho Chi Minh
Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Haiphong
Joint Chiefs
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Gromyko
Dobrynin
Moscow
Kosygin
Harold Wilson
London
Wilson
Congress
Adam Clayton Powell
House
Morris Udall
D Ariz
Powell
John Saylor
R-Pa
Adam
The First World War From Belfort to Armistice
A reader letter recounts the opening battle at Belfort in 1914 and traces the path to the American entry into World War I. It covers major events including Gavrilo Princip’s assassination, declarations of war, key battles such as Belleau Wood and Meuse Argonne, and the Armistice with casualty figures.
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Belfort
Andre Peugeot
Gavrilo Princip
Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Austria
Serbia
Austria - Hungary
Russia
Germany
France
Britain
Belgium
Peugeot
China
African
Jutland
Falkland Islands
United States
America
U.S
Wilson
Congress
Camp Mills
L.I
Rainbow
Hoboken
Hudson
Belleau Wood
4Th Marine
Chateau - Thierry
Pershing
1St
U.S. Army
St. Mihiel
Meuse Argonne
Meuse
Lorraine
33Rd
la Vachere Bois
37Th
Ypres - Lys
Argonne
Big Charlie on trial in absentia over NATO and De Gaulle
The piece argues for trying De Gaulle in absentia in New York if he refuses to lift warnings that would cancel the Paris war crimes trial of Johnson McNamara and Rusk. It surveys De Gaulle’s impact on NATO, U S aid, and postwar France, then pivots to the Apollo space disaster and Onassis’s aviation decision. It blends sharp critique of French policy with space program setbacks and a business decision on a Boeing 747.
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New York
de Gaulle
Johnson
Robert McNamara
Dean Rusk
Paris
NATO
Kremlin
Warsaw Pact
France
Belgium
U. S
Norway
Turkey
Big Charlie
Bernand Russell
Jean-Paul Sartre
Russell
U.S
Johnny Meyer
Joe Rowan
Zilionaire
Aristotle Onassis
Olympic Airlines
Onassis
Great
Dis
Congress Ethics Reform and Jet Travel Talk Cartoon
The Needle Washington comments on a traffic control problem among lawmakers and the ethics debate. A talk on supersonic travel questions whether saving time justifies costs and risks, noting the combined wealth and the impact on travel plans and hotel bookings.
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Washington
Congress
Viet Cong myths of NLF independence exposed in Vietnam debate
Washington correspondent explains why claims of broad NLF South Vietnamese representation are false. He cites Douglas Pike research showing NLF membership peaked at 300,000 in 1962 and argues the group’s aims center on reunification under Hanoi and a socialist state, not independent southern voices.
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Bruce Biossat
Washington
Enterprise Assn
Vietnam
Viet Cong National Liberation Front
NLF
Hanoi
Saigon
United States
Douglas Pike
USIA
Viet Cong
Lao Dong
Communist
South
Ern
Diem
Pike
South Vietnam
The death of the states grows less exaggerated
President Johnson presses for larger federal subsidies to states while Gov. Ronald Reagan warns of centralization. The piece argues increased Washington control risks eroding academic and local rights, cites University of Michigan funding pressure over hiring of Black staff, and notes proposed automatic refunds as an alternative.
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Russell Kirk
Johnson
Washington
Ronald Reagan
California
Roosevelt
Congress
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Adam Clayton Powell
Dick Gregory
Rep
Gerald Ford
Melvin Laird
Hippo Defies Crew and Returns to Cage During Transfer
A 572 pound pygmy hippopotamus escaped during a plane transfer from Liberia to Michigan, resisting prodding, bread, or spray. After cargo handlers called the Bronx Zoo, a strategy of leaving the animal alone succeeded as it calmly moved back into its cage.
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New York
Liberia
Michigan
Bronx
Biddeford Saco Journal Publisher and staff listing
Publisher W Paul Casavant and Managing Editor E P Ingalls head the Biddeford Saco Journal. The notice lists editorial and business departments with contact numbers and subscription rates for one month, six months, and one year.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Associated Press
Reu
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Glen Alden
SEC
Stock Exchange
SED
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Formosa
Wong Chao-tien
Chou Pai-yuan
Dze Shen-peng
Chou Pai-huan
Sze
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Madison Square Garden
Walter Shirra
Virgil
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Rowan
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Washington News
James Keller
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