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HEALTH & MEDICAL CARE. Predictably, the President submitted to Congress his new version of the various liberal medical bills that died in Congress last year. Kennedy's new program-which faces stiff opposition in the Senate and House-calls for an increase in social security taxes (probable first year total: $1.5 billion) to pay for hospital, nursing-home and outpatient service for 14.2 million persons 65 years of age and older. He also recommended federal assistance for construction of nursing homes, and Government scholarships for medical and dental students. At his press conference he said that the Surgeon General would...
...onlookers in bright stocking caps, fur coats and warm blankets as protection against the 20° temperature. The big inaugural platform on the steps of the Capitol's east portico was studded with eight white Corinthian columns matching those of the Capitol itself. U.S. flags whipped in the stiff wind above the great marble office buildings and the Library of Congress...
...club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal club," he recalled later, and he hated everything about...
...Russians kept flying in supplies-and probably a few Vietnamese officers and technicians as well. In a stiff protest, the U.S. State Department released a list of 184 observed sorties over a two-week period and included the serial numbers of nine Soviet Hyushin-14 planes that had been on the Hanoi-Laos run. Five of the planes, said the U.S., had been involved in the earlier "clandestine" operation by the Soviets in the Congo. Added a State Department spokesman: "If you were to conclude that the Russians have a special force for dealing with troubled areas, I wouldn...
...Benelux countries raised theirs a bit. By 1966 the Community, more familiarly known as the Common Market, should be fully operative. Then Italian Fiats and German Volkswagens, for instance, will be able to enter France duty-free, but the tariff on U.S. and British cars will remain a stiff...