Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eyes as she kissed him. Ike turned to meet the dozens of officials who made up the informal receiving line. Democratic and Republican leaders alike shook his hand; 24 officials from foreign embassies, who had come to the airfield on their own, added their greetings. The whole group lined the red carpet that Ike trod, reached out, shouting encouragement...
...researchers reversed their techniques to keep their volunteer subjects from dreaming. Instead of waking them at the end of an E.E.G. dream-pattern period (which averages about 20 minutes), they aroused them at the beginning. Through the night, these dream-deprived subjects got as much sleep as the previous group. But during successive dreamless nights they tried to dream oftener, up to 30 times on the fifth night. In contrast to the control subjects, who were wakened only after dreaming, this group became irritable and upset during waking hours. Their reactions resembled those of Disk Jockey Peter Tripp during...
Thirty Days. Continental began studying methods for insuring the health of the aged in the early 1950s, learned that the 65-and-above group contract remarkably few new diseases. "If you're going to get an ulcer or hypertension or cancer," says Dr. Clement G. Martin, Continental's medical director, "you'll most likely get it between the ages of 18 and 55." Furthermore, some of the most prevalent ailments do not require extremely expensive hospital treatment. Continental found that 60% of the people 65 and over who become ill have a hospital confinement of 30 days...
...industry-wide average of 20-30% of the first year's premiums), depends chiefly on newspaper ad coupons that prospects clip out and send in. Continental lumps all applicants in a state together, in effect handles the individual policies as if they were members of a group plan, thus spreading the risk and reducing the premium cost by as much as two-thirds...
Profit on Oldsters. Continental lost money on its original health-insurance plan (oldsters tend to wait until they have an ailment before taking out a policy). But as the number of policyholders in the over-65 age group increased, Continental made 33% profit last year. In the trial areas for the new "5,000 Reserve" policy, more than 7,000 oldsters eagerly signed up, and in Illinois 27.2% of the 65-Plus policyholders applied for the larger plan as well. With ever-increasing volume. Continental argues that it can turn insurance for the aged into a profitable line...