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...more trouble ahead for General Meyers. He had been indicted on charges of lying to the Senate committee, of evading personal income taxes, and of falsifying the returns of Aviation Electric. And the Air Force, which had stripped him of his decorations and cut off his $550-a-month pension, was still waiting for a chance to court-martial...
...necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...
...this time Earl was sure he had it in the bag. He even demanded that Jones withdraw. "It's a sin and a shame," he croaked, "to waste $600,000 of old-age pension money on a second primary. . . . The people have spoken. Jones will never win this time...
...next year Petrillo was elected international president of the A.F.M. With grandiose magnanimity, he gave his predecessor, 73-year-old Joseph Weber, a $20,000-a-year pension for life...
...said Patel ominously, "about 500 small states*-more than the total number of independent states in the world. Former alien rulers of our land preserved them like pickles, but now paramountcy has gone and India has become free." When one ruler asked whether India would guarantee that his new pension would be permanent, Patel answered, "Nobody can provide for all times...