Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title of your article "Ghetto Homesteaders" [Aug. 13] implies that the properties to be restored by Philadelphia City Councilman Joseph E. Coleman's Urban-Homesteading bill are only ghetto properties. This is not true. These houses are found in neighborhoods throughout the entire city...
...improvement of in-hospital medical care is most encouraging [Aug. 13]. However, you should also point out that before the patient arrives at the hospital, emergency medical services are usually abysmal. The ability of most communities to get to a patient quickly, to stabilize and properly treat him on the scene and to deliver him to the appropriate facility is, with a few exceptions, grossly inadequate...
...Willa Gather a "minor writer" [Aug. 13]? Unequivocally this places the reviewer, Martha Duffy, in the category of "lost lady": she has befuddled her thinking with today's hollow tomes. Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop has been one of America's most enduring classics...
...Tennis toes" [Aug. 13] are in actuality nothing more than an extremely mild form of what those of us who are mountain hikers know as "downhill toe jam." It is a simple result of the laws of physics. Increasing your body weight by a heavy pack, then compounding the effect of your toes hammering into the front of the shoe by walking downhill, brings on a far more serious malady than mere tennis toes...
...President's efforts to get back to business, Watergate pressures are not likely to subside any time soon. The public remains skeptical about his involvement in the scandal, as the latest Gallup poll indicates. After his nationally televised speech on Watergate on Aug. 15, approval of Nixon's performance as President rose from 31% to 38%, but 58% of the people who viewed the speech said that they were not satisfied with it. The Senate hearings reopen this month, and there are likely to be ample further causes for presidential tension...