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When Chicago Plumber Eugene Quinn, 44, was laid off from his $8-$10-an-hour construction job a year ago, he thought he could count on $98-a-week unemployment compensation, to which the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security said he was entitled. But for five months the IBES failed to send him so much as a dime. Since his wife Mary Anne's earnings as a file clerk do not cover much more than food for the family of five, the Quinns' electricity and phone bills went unpaid, and both services were cut off. Finally...
...dollars in tuition charged by almost all state universities. In 1970 the Lindsay Administration began a program of open enrollment, which permits any city high school graduate, whatever his grades, to enter the university. Of the 19,000 students who have been added, some 15% receive an average $30-a-week stipend as well as a free education. The cost of remedial studies for unprepared students has boosted the higher-education budget by $30 million, to $585.2 million...
Some elderly Americans cannot afford even the smallest apartment. For them, what passes for independence is a clammy rented room and a hot plate. An estimated 2,000 oldsters cling to life in $15-a-week furnished rooms in Boston's shabby South End. A few others find homes in peeling, decrepit residential hotels like the once elegant Miami resort where Mrs. David Yates, 90, gets a suite of rooms, maid service and two meals a day (no lunch) for $500 a month. People who cannot afford even this much may sometimes find a plain but safe haven...
...Columnist Renatus Hartogs, 66, who, she claimed, had mixed professional advice with sexual advances (TIME, March 24). Sexual intercourse with the good doctor, claimed Roy, had only produced severe depression and two involuntary stretches in a New York psychiatric ward. Last week a six-member jury awarded the $65-a-week clerk $250,000 in compensatory damages and another $100,000 in punitive damages. Hartogs, meanwhile, was left to ponder the possible loss of his medical license and the prospect of a similar suit by another of his former patients...
...a-week book clerk in a San Francisco department store, was a secretary at Esquire magazine in Manhattan when she went to Hartogs in February of 1969, seeking help for depression. Her story: after a few weeks of twice-weekly talk sessions, Hartogs suggested that they have sex to erase her guilt over an earlier sexual liaison with a woman. Things progressed from holding hands across his desk to kisses on the mouth to lying together on his couch. By May she was partially undressed, and uncomfortable about "his constant reference to sex," but she was told...