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This special report synthesizes the findings of a Health Care Financing Administration grant which allowed the author to analyze hospital finance in six foreign countries and in the United States. The author identified the principal problems facing hospital owners, carriers, and governments in the United States, and he conducted lengthy field work abroad to learn how each country dealt with the same problems.

Statistical relationships in 3 representative nat'l samples of the US electorate were studied through data secured by interviews, shortly after the Presidential elections of 1956 & 1960. TV leaves a more lasting impression than newspapers & radio when conveying reminders to vote. But recollection of TV messages does not appear to have a potency lacking to any other MM: each of them alike is associated with higher turnout than the absence of any recollection. Newspaper reading may be more effective than TV in affecting voting & the fulfilment of intentions to vote. Or, perhaps a more accurate statement is that newspaper reading & TV watching are associated with partly diff modes of life with diff pol'al patterns. When practiced jointly, newspaper reading & TV watching are associated with very high rates of turnout, but TV may `add' less to the combination than newspapers. The association between MM use & turnout distinguishes only between users & non-users: extra hours do not steadily increase voting probabilities. In the age of TV, radio listening has become statistically independent of turnout. Perhaps TV is more effective in stimulating increases in the voting of less pol'ly involved people, but the data are uneven & the same diff'ial effect (if any) may be true of newspaper reading. AA.