Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Frances Gitter, administrative director of UCA's latest venture, The Film School, and wife of Dean Gitter, one of the founding fathers of the Welles, explains the philosophy behind the UCA complex: "From the beginning, Dean and Peter [Peter Jaszi, program director at the Welles], and I felt that the actual presentation of films had been so plastic. We wanted a place where people could sit-down and talk. We've always thought of the Welles as a framework for generating real community feeling...
...place, the Committee promised to beef up the intramural program for freshmen, but the only substantive change to date has been the opening of some sports to Radcliffe freshmen...
...such a right would be guaranteed by a bill developed by the late Walter Reuther's "Committee of 100" assorted public figures. The bill was introduced by Senator Kennedy last August and is a sweeping reorganization of the country's health system. Essentially an expanded Social Security program, it would create a national health insurance system for all Americans. To meet an estimated price of $57 billion in its first year of operation -less than the nation's current medical bill-the plan would derive 40% of its funds from federal revenues, 35% from an employer...
...plan's promoters insist his figures are inflated. They point out that about two-thirds of the cost of their health insurance program is already being spent under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, or laid out by consumers who now pay their own medical bills. Since the new plan envisions far greater efficiency, almost $14 billion would be saved by eliminating administrative waste and overlapping programs. To that end, Max Fine of the Committee of 100 estimated that the Government could shave $1.1 billion from the national health-care bill by abolishing the more than 20,000 different types...
...help many of the 120,000 black servicemen returning to civilian life each year, the National Urban League operates a housing, job, school and welfare referral service. But the program is limited by size and official support. Since 1967 only 27,000 black veterans have been actually helped. Lewis C. Olive Jr., a former West Pointer who helps direct he League's veterans affairs department, believes that with greater help from the military more blacks would learn about the program. Meanwhile, the League intends to computerize the service and increase the number of participating cities from nine...