Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using their own cars, emblazoned with newly painted red and green crosses, the students ran an improvised ambulance service for wounded demonstrators. Careening through the crowded streets, their horns blaring, the cars were as much a menace as an aid to the demonstrators. On the Boulevard St. Germain, one bearded student tried to clear a lane for the cars by shouting: "If you get your head busted by an ambulance, it's not a political...
...lasted only 15 minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...
...adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...South Viet Nam will have gained new airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise support subsidy legislation, and makes them afraid of doing anything that would legitimize the conservatives' position in the eyes of middle-class voters...