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...insurance industry was second only to the medical profession in battling the advent of medicare. For years, insurance lobbyists in Washington opposed any Government-sponsored health-insurance program. Last week the insurance industry's representatives were still active, but this time it was at the huge social-security complex on the outskirts of Baltimore, where they are negotiating with the Government to get their share of medicare. Most insurance companies now realize that medicare, far from being the disaster they once predicted, may prove to be a welcome pep pill for their industry...
...Rome be built in a day? VAC official Eduard Sekler notes that all the existing masterpieces of urban design have evolved over a period of centuries, and before the advent of the elevator. Harvard Professor Willo von Moltke demonstrates, however, that Sekler's chief criteria--proportion, symbolic placement of essential buildings, "visual continuity," and reasonable traffic flow--can be employed in designing a new city (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela). Both articles are effectively illustrated...
What has totally revamped the industry is the advent of recording on a 1-in. ribbon of magnetized plastic film Perfected in 1947, tape recording stretches the music out on an operating table where, with the aid of a razor and splicing tape, small miracles of plastic surgery can be performed. Where once the artist recorded a work from beginning to end several times, then selected the version with the least mistakes, now he can do it piecemeal and at his leisure, confident that any wrong notes, known as "clams," will later be snipped out and replaced with the correct...
...store for selected items. Many housewives who formerly shopped only at one supermarket now divide their weekly grocery budgets among several. Like the earlier competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This fact, along with the advent of discount supermarkets in many parts of the U.S., has begun to cause grocers to fight their competitive battles again on the old ground of lower prices...
...potted mimosa tree to receive her guests, or that she kept a pride of pet lions in her basement. But it is true that she paraded in elegant furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent...