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Despite assurances from the economists that a new boom is coming, many a U.S. businessman last week could not conquer an uneasy hunch that for a while yet U.S. prosperity would be a kind of austere affluence. In a panel discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn...
...panel discussion following Chen's talk, Mervyn Jones, a British free-lance journalist, discussed the prevailing in English secondary education. Jones, a one-time candidate for Parliament on the Labor ticket, criticized the close correlation between public school attendance (3 per cent of the total of secondary school students) and access to positions of influence in business, industry, government, and the professions...
...loud as anyone's. Yet he is known in the organization for taking a step that a decade ago would have seemed unthinkable to A.M.A. After heading an investigating commission, Larson two years ago got A.M.A. to affirm the economic merits and medical quality of prepaid, closed-panel health-care plans -typically. New York's Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P...
...major objection to panel practice is that the traditional, one-to-one patient-doctor relationship may be weakened. Yet, says Atlanta's Dr. Arthur P. Richardson, a doctor in a group can have just as much interest in his patients as any other: "The corner grocery store is gone, but people in supermarkets can be friendly too." Says Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, director of the giant New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "Group practice is the most efficient type in the long run." New York University's Dr. Howard A. Rusk goes farther: "Solo practice is outdated...
...Larson was first named to A.M.A.'s House of Delegates in 1940. Ten years later, he made the board of trustees, and in 1958 became its chairman. He was already chairman of the commission that had been studying group-practice panels for 2½ years. When he presented its unanimous 15-man report on them in 1959, he did so from a position of great strength: A.M.A. mossbacks did not openly oppose the man who seemed headed for the presidency. In a massive report covering all forms of group practice and sparing none of their shortcomings, the Larson commission...