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At Today's Prices For Medicines, Doctors And Hospitals-if The Latter Are Available At Any Price-only Millionaires Can Afford To Be Hurt Or Sick And Pay For It. Very Few People Want Socialized Medicine In The U.s. But Pressure For It Is Going To Appear With The Same Hurricane Force As The Demand For Pollution Control If The Medicine Men And Hospital Operators Don't Take Soon Some Draconian Measures... At The Present Rate Of Doctor Fees And Hospital Costs Under Medicare And Medicaid Plans [taxpayers] Are Shovelling In Billions With Nothing But Escalation In Sight.

A Little While Ago I Visited Omaha Beach For The Second Time In My Life. In The Intervening 26 Years, Nearly 20,000 Tides Had Come And Gone And Little Remains Visible Of The Greatest Military Landing In Man's History Of Endless Warring. What's To Be Seen Is Mostly In A Superb Museum And A Panoramic Cemetery. The Cemetery Memorializes With Dignity And Grandeur The Event And The Dead, And Moves One Deeply. Before They Die Less Precipitously And/or In Lesser Purpose, Americans Who Can Should Visit World War Ii's Normandy Beach. Such Seeing And Remembering Helps A Man's Perspective.

You Have To Come Up In The World Before It's Worthwhile For Those Worth Less To Put You Down.

Experts Kill Me. Economic Experts, That Is. Corporations, Foundations, Publications And Governments Pay Them By The Bucketful, And They Fill Buckets With Forecasts That Change More Frequently Than White-collar, Workers Do Shirts. What Lies Ahead Is The Usual Title. What Lies Would Often Be More Appropriate. If Women's Hemlines Changed As Rapidly As An Economist's Forecasts, The Fashion People And The Textile Industry Would Be More Profitable Than Any Other. In Fact, If All The Country's Economists Were Laid End To End, They Still Wouldn't Reach A Conclusion.

Everybody Has To Be Somebody To Somebody To Be Anybody.