Word: broader
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...been building more new homes than Government figures showed, the Census Bureau concluded last week. New figures, based on a much broader, more accurate sampling, showed that the U.S. last year put up 1,530,000 nonfarm housing units v. the 1,380,000 previously reported. The new statistics also make a less cheering point. They showed that building so far in 1960 is down 22% from last year instead of 19%. The drop in housing starts this April, as compared to April 1959, was 24% instead of 22%, confirming the complaints of many U.S. builders that they have been...
...After Dark. Although nearly every West European city except respectable Rome has its striptease shows, the bawdiest are in Paris, Hamburg and Brussels. Among the popular places: Brussels' Chez Paul au Gaity; Paris' flashy Lido, and the broader diversions of the famed Crazy Horse. Hamburg's Reeperbahn nightclub strip is Germany's gaudiest and roughest...
...problems. They share advice on such crises as what to tell a date who shows up when Dad has been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find his way to AA. That is a job for the alcoholic himself. Alateens seek an understanding of the problem and a way to live with it. "When...
Says Superintendent William C. Keating Jr., 39, specialty-trained in administrative psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation: "Treating psychiatric patients as individuals is like painting cameos. I'm more of a muralist and like to work with a broader brush." With only six fulltime psychiatrists among the 14 M.D.s on his staff (plus 23 clinical psychologists and others equipped to lead group therapy), Dr. Keating can use only broad-stroke methods with the 700 patients rated as good treatment prospects. Chief Psychiatrist Knut H. Houck uses a variety of tranquilizing drugs for agitated patients and psychic energizers for the depressed...
...Dirksen resolutely reversed his own month-old vote in the drive for unity, voted to make it a federal crime to obstruct any order by a U.S. court-not just an order concerning school integration. Dirksen's switchover to the broader proposal helped line up a 68-to-20 majority for this amendment...