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Premiums are raised through a 6% payroll tax, shared equally by employees and employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages. Administration is in the hands of semiprivate companies supervised by the government. Sweden, since 1891, has promoted voluntary sickness and accident insurance. More than half the population, or 4,700,000, are covered. They pay varying premiums to government-approved societies. The government pays 55% of the societies' outlay...
...Potato. On the final day, there was a minor to-do over a proposed report on religious liberties. Protesting against "the insidious pattern by which Communist and other totalitarian regimes are seeking to force the church into a position of subservience," the report also contained a surprise package. This was a call "for Protestants and Roman Catholics at the highest level of leadership" to join forces against the anti-church methods used by Communists...
...Bingham's attitude towards polofits into the current pattern of such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty
Last week it came down. The Celanese Corp. of America, third biggest U.S. yarn producer, trimmed its prices of rayon (acetate staple fiber) by 12.5% to 42? a lb., lowest in its history. As other producers, weavers, converters and jobbers began cutting prices to the new pattern, the whole industry joined in its first big postwar price battle...
...second Yale game was rough, confusing, and played on the New Haven Arena's pencil-shaped ice surface, but it followed fairly closely the pattern of most recent Crimson games. The team played uncoordinated, indecisive hockey for two periods, then caught fire in the final 20 minutes and turned a close game (it was tied three all at the beginning of the third period) into a rout...