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...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...
...prosecution and defense forces spun their separate versions of the murder, there grew the specter of not one but two Bernie Finches, and the key to the trial lay on the question of which was the real Finch...
...Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row of identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal country. Sam decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what, and there he found football. When Sam made the Class-B all-state team...
Scholar. The case was by no means a neat package. Lynn Kauffman was a close friend to Stanley Spector, 35, a professor of Far Eastern Affairs at St. Louis' Washington University, and to his family. She was Professor Specter's secretary and a dedicated scholar in Oriental studies (she could speak Mandarin); she had lived with Spector and his wife Juanita and three children since 1956, accompanied the Spector family to Singapore last year. Spector himself had flown home to St. Louis from Singapore, and his family, with Lynn, followed aboard Utrecht...
...Vanishing Specter. When De Gaulle had finished, France was swept by a vast wave of relief that finally someone had pointed the way to an end of the bloody rebellion that has cost France $5 billion, kept 500,000 young Frenchmen under arms in Algeria and badly strained the fabric of NATO. The Communist and fascist fringes hurled insults at the President, but the great French middle, both liberal and conservative, overwhelmingly supported and applauded the bold initiative. And the dread specter of right-wing revolt all but vanished even in Algeria itself, where diehard French ultras had warned...