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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Shaping up as one of 1960's most incendiary political issues is the problem of providing adequate medical care for those who need it most and can afford it least: the 15 million U.S. citizens 65 and over. A variety of bills calling for federal medical subsidies to the aged is before both the Senate and House. By far the most popular and controversial of all has been introduced by Rhode Island's Democratic Representative Aime Forand, 64. Last week the Forand bill was drawing more mail than any other bill of any kind before Congress...
Ways & Means Committee that the Administration opposes compulsory plans such as Forand's, wants to "study" the problem longer, before submitting an alternative idea...
...disservice" by provoking anti-Catholic resentment. Says Bennett: "We might be able to discuss this issue with greater moderation if we would admit that, whatever the objections to parochial schools, the present emphasis on them is a natural response to the secularization of public education; [this is] also a problem for Protestants, about which they do very little...
Charles was willing to let Martin out. But unfortunately, he explained, there was a problem about Martin's stock, which was tied up in a voting trust that enabled the older brother to control 51% of Revlon's stock and dictate Revlon policy. Charles would be glad to exchange 100,000 of Martin's Revlon shares for the equivalent value in the stock of Schering Corp., a New Jersey drug firm which Revlon had bought with the idea of a merger, later dropped. But Charlie's legal counsel had advised him, he said, that a straight...
Many a free trader answers no. Says John Hight, executive director of the Committee for a National Trade Policy: "The Sugar Act is bad economics all the way around. There ought to be more competition. It's part of the whole protectionist problem. This part just happens to have been around longer." Free traders argue that the Sugar Act was spawned by an emergency that has long passed. The act is the outgrowth of a 1934 measure...