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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the growth of private medical care, the 21-year-old National Health Service is in no danger of extinction. There have been bitter complaints (most recently over increased charges for false teeth and eyeglasses and imposition of a 30? prescription fee), but the British know that the program has served them well. In a recent survey, 95% of those interviewed rated N.H.S. good to excellent. Moreover, nine out of ten people who have private hospitalization plans still use their government-paid general practitioner as a free family doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...December 1968 ended all pretense of civilian government; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. A leader of the then-popular military coup that deposed Leftist João Goulart in 1964, Costa e Silva was elected President with army backing in 1966 and embarked on a program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke and was replaced by a military junta, which two months ago named General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Unitarian Universalist churchmen have approved an experimental plan that will allow seminarians to freewheel around New York for three years, taking courses wherever they want to, living in the ghettos if they choose, learning to minister to the world principally by living in it. A larger and more structured program along similar lines is apparently working well. Last year Manhattan's onetime conservative New York Theological Seminary made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber, 49, liberal former pastor of the experimental East Harlem Protestant Parish. Out went required courses; in came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MINISTRY: BRINGING GOD BACK TO LIFE | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...born black, has had remarkable success with a rural redevelopment enterprise called the Southern Consumer's Cooperative. It has opened, among other things, a farmers' cooperative, a prosperous fruitcake bakery and a cut-rat; supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited with starting dozens of job-training centers across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MINISTRY: BRINGING GOD BACK TO LIFE | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...prelude" to lovemaking. As such, kissing fitted perfectly into the medieval concept that there are dynamic benefits to be had from unsatisfied physical desire. Sexual release killed love; amor Interruptus not only kept love pure and burning but could also, as part of a cultural self-improvement program, lead the lover to moral excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lip Service | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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