Chronicle: April - June 1977

Effects of OASDI benefit increase, June 1977.

Socml security checks dellwred to benefiaanes m the first week of July 1977 reflected the thwd automatic cost-of-hvmg nxrease m cash benefits under legulatlon enacted m 1972 and 1973 The 5 Q-percent merease, which became effectwe m June, apphed to benefits for all persons on the social security benefit rolls at the end of May, except those recelvlng benefits under the “special mnunum” PIA provw...

George Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. (June 23, 1910-July 27, 1977).

On July 27, 1977, George Rosen died suddenly in Oxford, England. He and Mrs. Rosen had planned to travel leisurely through the English countryside, enjoying themselves as they had so often in the past, and ultimately to arrive in Scotland in time for Professor Rosen to deliver a keynote address and participate in a symposium on "Medicine and Industrialization in History" [1]. Professor of the H...

Pehr Victor Edman, 14 April 1916 - 19 March 1977.

Institutionalized SSI recipients covered by Medicaid, June 1977.

The dependent and survwor benefxtartes who lost beneftts because of thetr own earnmgs forfated a total of $303 m~lhon durmg 1975--o* 57 percent of the $529 mtllton that would have been payable to them had there been no deducttons for earnmgs Wtdowed fathers and mothers tended to have higher earnmgs than did other types of benefuarles (table 11) Fifty percent of the wdowed fathers had earnmgs of...

Submitted: June 15, 1994; Accepted: April 5, 1995

The analysis of chessboard pebbling by Andrew Odlyzko is strengthened and generalized, rst to higher dimension and then to arbitrary posets. 1 The pebbling game The pebbling game of Kontsevich is played on the grid points of the rst quadrant. One starts with a single pebble on the origin and a move consists of replacing any pebble with two pebbles, one above and one to the right of the vanishin...