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...surface, the job would seem to offer only a vast and thankless chore. The three will be responsible for making payments to and supervising the performance of hospitals providing medicare services worth some $3.5 billion the first year. In return, the intermediaries will get only their administrative expenses. Still, there are some hidden assets. Insurance companies are planning supplemental policies to provide a host of benefits-hospitalization beyond 90 days, post-hospital drug expenses, etc.-not available under medicare. By their direct access to some 18 million persons eligible for medicare, the intermediaries will have the inside track on such...
...Dreary Chore. With a sigh, Earl Warren called for arguments in the third case: Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons' appeal from Massachusetts' ban on Fanny Hill, the enduring (1749) erotic bestseller that has been ruled non-obscene in New York. For the publisher, Lawyer Charles Rembar breezily announced: "I bring you a case in which it is not necessary to read the book." Commented Justice John M. Harlan: "Maybe I wasted my time reading it in advance." Undaunted, Rembar argued that all sorts of experts have long since attested to Fanny's social importance...
...view Fanny as an obscene "narration by a prostitute of the particulars of her trade"-a nonstop romp through 50 acts of sexual inter course, or one every 51 pages. Whatever experts say, Cowin insisted, the Justices must plow through Fanny themselves. "I know it's a dreary chore," he said. Worse than that, fretted Justice Hugo Black, as he asked "how the court is going to do all this censorship and do anything else...
Mary claims absolute disinterest in the 9-to-5 life-"the little house with the white picket fence and the roses"-and she made dozens of campaign speeches for John (a chore that Jackie abjured). Mary usually says what she thinks-bluntly. Once, as she and some friends were scanning a fulsome magazine piece about her husband, she snapped: "That's not the man I sleep with...
...that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally among the most direct and polished in the business, this must have been a chore. For the reader, it is deadly...