Medicare aid study panel for disabled set by Cohen
Secretary Cohen named a 12 member advisory council to study extending Medicare to 1.5 million disabled persons. The panel will report by Jan 1 on needs costs and financing, with leaders from medicine business and labor. Dr Henry H Kessler chairs the panel created under the 1967 Social Security amendment.
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Washington
UPI
Wilbur J. Cohen
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Cohen
America
Henry H. Kessler
Kessler Institute For Rehabilitation
Newark
N.J
Galaxy C5A Maiden Flight Delayed by Minor Fire
The Lockheed Galaxy C5A maiden flight near Marietta Georgia was scrubbed after a wheel assembly fire and overheated brakes. Test crews replaced tires and delayed takeoff to Sunday amid crowds of thousands including Gov. Maddox.
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Marietta
API
Lockheed
Lee Poore
Leo Sullivan
Lester Maddox
Lockheed Complex
Atlanta
Galaxy
Air Force
Seamen Strike Halts Dozens of Ships Tied Up East Gulf Ports
About 45 000 NMU sailors walked out over wage reopeners, idling 100 ships and threatening 500 more. ILA support noted. longshoremen continued working in New York. Strike impacts limited to east coast gulf ports with ships at sea arriving later. Up to 407 freighters 158 tankers and 11 passenger ships could be affected.
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New York
UPI
East Coast
Gulf Ports
Bernard Raskin
National Maritime Union
NMU
Maritime Service Committee
Tanker Service Committee
West Coast
Great Lake
America
Williams Brother Reports Tennessee Williams Safe After Distress
The brother W Dakin Williams said the missing playwright Tennessee Williams is unharmed after calls to his New York apartment and Key West home failed. Police noted no contact but the brother spoke with Williams by phone twice, and a cryptic note had raised fears of danger. Williams recently faced poor reviews for the film Boom and has not had a Broadway success since The Night of the Iguana.
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Collinsville
UPI
Tennessee Williams
New York
Williams
Key West
Fla
W. Dakin Williams
Dakin Williams
Tennessee
Thomas Lanier Williams
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Humphrey Campaign Enlists 60 Experts for Policy Panels
United Democrats for Humphrey says Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will be advised by over 60 policy experts. Robert R. Nathan will coordinate about 30 panels on international affairs economic issues and non economic domestic problems. Zbigniew Brzezinski will lead foreign policy, with Walter Heller, Joseph Pechman, Nathan, and David Birenbaum handling non economic matters.
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Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
United Democrats
Humphrey
Robert R. Nathan
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Columbia University
Walter Heller
University of Minnesota
Joseph Pechman
Bethesda
Nathan and
David Birenbaum
Nickel Price Of Coffee At Ray's Drive In
In Bowling Green Kentucky a drive in owner Ray Woosley frames coffee as a nickel price. The posted list offers items such as cup of coffee five cents second cup five cents warm up five cents and other small portions all priced at five cents.
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Bowling Green
UPI
Ray's Drive In
U.S. 31-W
Ray Woosley
Medicare Achievements Highlight Broad Economic Effects
The article notes that dire predictions about Medicare did not come true as doctors benefited under the program. It cites 20 million seniors covered, 84 billion dollars spent, 10.6 million hospital stays, 45 million medical bills, over a million elderly receiving post hospital care, and 1.5 million using hospital outpatient services. It lists several university and industry leaders involved in the discussion.
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Juanita Krips
Resurrection City
Capitol Hill
Ralph Abernathy
Montmartre
Hotel Morgan
the Hotel Morgan
International Longshoremen's Association
ILA
Osage
Chaplin, Bethel Road
ROUTE
WALK
Monongahela Power Company
I.s. News
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Duke University
Leonard W. Larson
American Medical Association
Daniel W. Pettengill
Aetna Life and Casualty Co
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Smith-Corona
Barry’s Office Service
Beechurst Ave
Bell & Howell
Bell Howell
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Gamera
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