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...relaxed atmosphere of the School. Halpern said he had been given control of the School-sponsored Film Society, which offers a weekend program of inexpensive movies, even though he is a student. Others cited the accessibility of the professionals of the Production Company, the willingness of the school to allot film for individual projects, and its receptiveness to new ideas. "Film is just incredible fun," co-director Leeds said to me one Thursday afternoon. "We don't want to avoid anything now on any level." Future experiments, she said would probably include video courses and workshops on directing and production...
...Buon Kli B, with nearly 7000 people - the largest resettlement site in Darlac Province - population pressure and advancing Vietnamese farmers leave the Montagnards with only a fraction of the land required to sustain themselves. Before the move, Vietnamese province officials planned to allot only two-tenths of a hectare to each family. But U. S. social welfare advisers estimate that a minimum of two hectares is needed to sustain a Montagnard family...
...major complaints then was that the selection of delegates to the convention was undemocratic, favoring small states over large. On this, the committee compromised last week, voting to allot delegate strength 53% on the basis of a state's electoral votes-a concession to smaller states-and 47% on the size of the state's Democratic vote for President in the last three elections-a decision that will give more convention power to the big-city states such as New York, California and Illinois...
...Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases and medical consultant to the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws. He claims that many hospitals have established arbitrary quotas for the number of abortions of different types (graded according to the length of pregnancy), and how many beds they will allot. Even worse, says Nathanson, is that some hospitals will not take women who are more than twelve weeks pregnant. "These," he adds, "are the women who are really getting desperate, who need it most." It is difficult to get nurses to aid in abortions beyond the twelfth week, because...
...nursing home when her daughter, with whom she had always lived, married late in life. To her own surprise, she is happier than she was before, taking great pride in reading to and helping her older roommate. A difficult decision of the middle-aged is how to allot their resources between children and parents and still provide for their own years of retirement, which may well extend for two decades...