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Social Welfare. Broadening of social security to cover 20 million U.S. farm workers, houseworkers, etc., not covered now; an increase of 50% in all social security benefit payments; a national health program to insure medical aid for everyone; $300 million in federal aid to raise the incomes of schoolteachers and provide more schools; a slum-clearance program; a low-rent housing program to put up 15 million units in the next ten years...
...theater trade unions were able to get Congress to grant a charter to the American National Theater and Academy. This meant that ANTA had the same charter-status as the Red Cross and the Smithsonian, and like them, no federal funds. Once a year, ANTA has put on a benefit show in New York, the proceeds of which have gone to the New York Experimental Theater...
...halberds guarded a torch-lit stage in Sanders Theater Sunday night, the setting would have been complete for the fine concert of fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...
...clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only...
Three distinct groups benefit from this program: the Fellows themselves, journalism, and the University. An even hundred of the first 111 men returned to journalism after sabbaticals; half of these are still with papers that employed them before they came to Cambridge...