Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your May 2 cover story on Arnold Palmer: it was a splendid account of Arnold's life. But you did the most important person in Arnold's life, up until his marriage to Winnie, a great injustice by not mentioning her and the great part she played in molding Arnold's character and personality...
...Alateens learn to live with their special set of problems. They share advice on such crises as what to tell a date who shows up when Dad has been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find his way to AA. That is a job for the alcoholic himself. Alateens seek an understanding of the problem...
...stake in the campaign is still another of Douglas' welfare plans: a compulsory insurance program that would provide complete medical care at an annual cost of $40 for a family, $17.50 for a single person. Both the opposition Liberals and the province's 1,000 doctors are against the Douglas scheme, challenging its practicality. The province already has cradle-to-grave security that matches anything in such better-known socialist Edens as Sweden, Uruguay and New Zealand...
...passed along to the patient. A double room costs $14.50 as compared to $22.50 in the rest of the hospital; a single costs $16.50 compared to $28. St. Mary's carries no extra liability insurance on its mobile, self-care patients. Its position has been justified: only one person has had a slight accident...
...written in bold, sometimes eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for all the De Gaulle qualities: his soldier's selflessness, his sometimes irritating sense of destiny, above all his incorruptible honesty. In another man it would seem intolerable if he wrote of himself in the third person: "Every Frenchman . . . had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history." From De Gaulle such words have the ring of simple fact...