Joint session JB05 [breaker page]

AS OF present writing (January 9, 1948) Congress has reconvened and President Truman has come before a joint session of both houses with renewed and vigorous support of a national health insurance program. But Congress is Republican and Senator Taft has declared his determination to fight his Republican health program (S-545) through Congress, despite what he has termed "increasing propaganda activity" in behalf of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (S-1320). And, it should be remembered, Senator Taft is chairman of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare which will decide upon the health bills to be reported to the floor of the Senate during ensuing months. Last month when we reviewed the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bills (S-1606 and S-1320) and the Taft Bill (S-545), we stated that "it is unlikely that either a comprehensive Democratic or Republican health program will be acted upon in this session of Congress." This prediction still looks good. It is a reasonably good guess that the Taft and the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bills will deadlock in Committee hearings early in the year. We may then expect to see a less controversial measure reported out of Committee favorably so that those seeking re-election in the fall can claim achievement in relation to the health of the people. The cause of child health is always popular. Therefore, the School Health Services Bill (HR-1980 and S-1290) may play the role of a compromise bill unless it can be demonstrated that some other approach to health legislation is preferable.

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Preview: 1989 MRS Spring Meeting

MRS Bulletin ◽

10.1557/s0883769400063211 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 51-55

Keyword(s):

Optical Materials ◽

Materials Science ◽

Magnetic Films ◽

Research Society ◽

Joint Session ◽

Linus Pauling ◽

Spring Meeting ◽

Materials Research ◽

The Town

The 1989 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held at the Town and County Hotel in San Diego, with events spanning April 22-29. Meeting Chairs Robin Farrow, Dick Siegel and Angelica Stacy have developed a program of 16 technical symposia that reflect the continuing key role of materials science in the development of both mature and emerging technologies.Several new topics will reflect emerging areas, including materials for optical storage of information (Symposium F), ultrathin magnetic films (Symposium G), and materials problems of infrastructure (Symposium P). A special workshop will provide a technology update on diamond films (Symposium P) and will feature a joint session with Symposium H, Optical Materials: Processing and Science.Plenary speaker Linus Pauling, research professor at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, will discuss quasicrystals, materials whose atomic structure displays perfect five-fold symmetry, but whose atomic pattern is never exactly repeated as it would be in conventional crystals. During the Plenary Session MRS will also recognize graduate students who have made outstanding contributions as authors or co-authors of papers presented at the 1989 Spring Meeting.

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