Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...
Another element of the work at Haus Villigst is the care of teen-age apprentices (currently 29) who spend three years at the Haus, sharing the community life of the students. A third aspect of the program brings industrialists into contact with workers as Christian equals to air their problems together in the common context of the Gospel. In such gatherings it is not uncommon for Roman Catholics (with diocesan permission) to meet and pray with Protestants...
...only that Alabama is relatively poor. So is, or has been, many another Southern state. But some, such as North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, have done a first-rate job of checking and treating TB. Not so Alabama. Alone among the states, it imposes no statewide rules for the care of patients and assumes no overall responsibility for them. It has appropriated only $450,000 for their care this fiscal year, as against $2,650,000 for Tennessee and $3,137,000 for Georgia...
...Alabama hospital bed carries with it no assurance of adequate care. The state's funds work out at about $1.80 a day for each patient. Local and voluntary moneys boost the total to $4.50, whereas in hard-pressed Mississippi the total is $6.24, and in Tennessee $10. Only three of Alabama's eight sanatoriums are equipped for surgery, and some give streptomycin and isoniazid only to patients who can pay for them. One 65-bed hospital has no registered nurse; a practical nurse does her best with unskilled help...
...index, which was abandoned this week, since the new one has become generally accepted, the July 1952 record of 192.4 of the 1935-39 average still stands, though the old index has also edged up to 190.9. It does not include such items as transportation, medical care and recreation which are in the new index...