Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...prosperous U.S. of 1960, the nation, like Mister Sam, has become increasingly aware of a general and growing problem: the number of old people in the U.S. is increasing, and fewer and fewer of them can afford the medical care they must have. Medical progress itself is largely responsible for swelling the number of U.S. oldsters over 65 from 3.1 million in 1900 to 15.5 million in 1960, and on to an estimated 24.5 million in 1980. A man or woman of 65 now can expect to live more than a dozen years; one in four will live a score...
Bread & Butter Issue. With all their problems oldsters can vote (and now make up 20% of the electorate). So can the increasing numbers of budget-pressed young adults who, busy raising large families, feel the extra burden of carrying the heavy medical expenses of elderly parents and relatives. Result: the age-old problem of old age has become a red-hot 1960 election issue...
...Facts of Care. Some of the publicity and the political pressure have conjured up the specter of a U.S. all but ready to allow masses of its aged to die untended. There is a problem but no crisis. U.S. citizens, young and old alike, generally receive the best health care in the world. A University of Chicago team recently polled 2,700 people over 65; only 2% claimed that poverty prevented them from getting medical care. All states except ten have programs of medical relief for the aged subsidized by matching funds from Washington, and almost every large county...
...Jeep into the streets with a suggestion: let student leaders come forward to form a delegation to see Rhee. Fourteen responded. Song chose five and personally escorted them to the presidential mansion. There, as Song stood by beaming paternally, the students told Rhee: "The only way to solve the problem is to hold new elections-and also for you to offer to resign...
...watchmaker has a prouder name than Elgin. But in recent years Elgin had led the industry in a field it was not one bit proud of-losses. In 1957-58 the company fell nearly $8,500,000 into the red. For management the problem was: How could an honored old company be saved from bankruptcy...