Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...aged have means of less than $1.000 a year, counting social security benefits (see diagram), and most of them have banked less than $200 to meet a medical emergency. Says Dr. Sam Gertman, director of the University of Miami's geriatrics division: "An aged person usually can pay for his first illness out of his savings. On the second illness, he mortgages his home. After the third, he goes on the county...
...full time visiting indigent outpatients. The Los Angeles County Medical Association regularly advertises in local newspapers that free medical care is available to anyone who 1) needs it, and 2) phones in to numbers listed in the ad. The most recent ads ran within the past month. Not one person has telephoned. Says Dr. George Griffith, geriatrics specialist and professor of medicine at the University of Southern California: "No reasonably intelligent person need go without completely competent medical care anywhere in California." Says Dr. Leona Baumgartner. New York City's commissioner of health: "No ailing aged person goes uncared...
...days that followed, Lucas stuck to his guns, defending the person and regime of President Syngman Rhee. Soon he began getting threatening telephone calls in his Bando Hotel room in Seoul. Provided with an armed guard by Rhee, Lucas hastily packed his gear, flew off to safety in Tokyo. There, last week, he was still shaken by his experience. "Whoever leads the Republic of Korea in the months ahead will govern at the pleasure of the mob," wrote Lucas. "That this could happen in Korea - which I've come to regard as my second home - is unbelievable...
Down the Middle. This uneasy middle-of-the-road position was roundly attacked from both sides. Extremist Southerners circulated a pamphlet which cried: "How could a person of honor and good sense support a report which makes not a single suggestion for strengthening the jurisdictional system or upholding our right to believe in and practice fundamental principles for safeguarding the morals of our children and the integrity of our race...
Alighting on U.S. soil in Seattle after an extended spell of world traveling, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow seemed awed by his person-to-person reunion with the small world. Allowed he: "I think as a result of my eight months of wandering about, I will talk with less assurance about world conditions - or perhaps I should say 'less arrogance...