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...Jackpot Urge. The new A.I.A. proposals, which would require either overall federal legislation or individual action by the states, share with the Keeton-O'Connell plan the idea that auto-insurance companies should promptly pay off their policyholders regardless of who is to blame for an accident. The A.I.A. contends that by dispensing with the legal need to prove negligence, a requirement that often ties up insurance cases for years, insurers could not only settle accident claims more quickly but could reduce premiums by an average of one-third...
...often unable to wait for his case to come to trial and is forced to settle for whatever the company offers. If he does gamble on going to court, he may lose the case and get nothing. On the other hand, if he wins he may hit the jackpot...
...Founder Alan Weitzman, 31, points out, "They're saving while they're planning for the trip, which keeps excitement and enthusiasm building up." Now, for the 269 members who joined Club Internationale at the outset three years ago and have since been eagerly awaiting a European jackpot this summer, President Johnson's as yet unspecified intention to curb travel outside the hemisphere is adding anxiety. "I doubt that the European travel bans will really be prohibitive," says Weitzman, but the club is making plans for substitute 20-day trips to Central and South America-just in case...
...from five different sets of standards. If he addresses his letter to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he gets only 30% of the cost of the project. But if he mails it to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he may hit something akin to the jackpot-a full...
...Advocate has hit the jackpot. For some years now it has solicited nationally, and has seldom produced an issue in which student writing predominated. Merely by seeking the best of any recent crop of Harvard graduates, it has aligned itself with professional "little magazines," rather than with other undergraduate publications, in competition for individual manuscripts; and since the Advocate does not pay its contributors, it has rarely gotten enough to land it very high in its chosen league...