Word: prepaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner of the "worst" actor award for the third straight year, Kirk Douglas, acknowledged the dubious honor last week. He asked that the grotesque trophy be "sent prepaid, please...
...growing army of oldsters, most of whom cannot afford health insurance, a plan was offered last week by the A.M.A.'s Council on Medical Service. Patterned after programs now available only in limited areas under local Blue Shield auspices, it would encourage a nationwide system of low-cost, prepaid voluntary health insurance for oldsters below a certain income level (not yet determined). To make the plan work, physicians must agree to accept lower-than-usual fees for their services to such patients. The all-powerful House of Delegates approved the plan unanimously, thus put the A.M.A. on record...
...Prepaid Signal. While Pius XII lay dying inside the cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope...
...Foreign Independent Tours." For travelers who want to be free of details, supervision and money worries-which is FITs-the company handles an average of 1,100 trips a month. The customer can theoretically leave his money belt behind, once the company hands him his blue wallet stuffed with prepaid coupons for every service he will need, down to the last cab, gondola ride, sales tax and tip. With each book of FIT coupons comes a neatly typed, individual itinerary that plots each move and ticks off every landmark, e.g., the Leaning Tower of Pisa is 13 feet off center...
...Prepaid Junkets. Shipowner Niarchos seldom visits his 48 ships or his worldwide string of companies, keeps his office under his hat. He is a familiar figure in England, where he stables his string of race horses. In Switzerland, where he spends several weeks a year, he is known as an expert skier. On two continents he is known as a knowledgeable art collector; he recently paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pietà. On the Riviera, Niarchos keeps a fleet of sports cars, to shuttle between his two Cap d'Antibes palaces, and two yachts: the black...