Word: locales
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...alternative to the Truman bill is that it has combined "free participation" with the former plan's better provisions. The Hospital Construction Act, now in force, would remain; federal financial aid would be extended to medical schools and federal scholarships to medical students. Moreover, the government would bolster the local setup by contributing a portion of the lower income members insurance. For instance, if a worker paid $10 a year in premiums, the government would make up the difference between that and $50, the established norm in the region. Eligibility for federal aid would be contingent upon a non-profit...
...make the average American a participant and not a statistic in a national health program, the progressive wing of the Republican party has brought up before Congress two bills, $1970 and H.R. 4919, outlining a new medical insurance plan. The pith of the bill is its emphasis on local autonomy. Its logic is that by keeping the average person in what amounts to personal contact with the health plan's administration you give him the responsibility of using the plan prudently...
...Cape runs a tiny railroad on his farm. It is the last two gauger in the country. He picked up the antique's parts a few years ago from a Maine junk dealer, put them in working order and now uses the line to haul cran-berries. The local railroad-bugs intend to visit him sometime this spring and spend an afternoon examining his models and riding his ancient train...
Like mice carrying away the stuffing of a mattress to build their nests, local seavengers are hollowing out the insides of the University library system. These pilferers of books, monographs, and examination papers are not bad men. They have just fallen victims to the idea that the man who uses a book has the right to own it. It's probably that these are times of social change for moral standards to be so out of whack, but the University cannot subscribe to this hazily defined philosophy of self-interest...
...Cambridge has gone the same way. East Cambridge will see no more the kindly old neighborhood cop. No longer will the local patrolman help prevent crime by boosting some wayward youngster along the straight and narrow path. It is pretty difficult to boost someone from a moving car without knocking him down...