Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POPI. The plight of the poor is told with humor and bite in this surprisingly successful comedy. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower with three jobs, struggling to get his children out of a New York ghetto...
...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
Under the provisions of the Nixon welfare plan, able-bodied parents, except mothers of preschool-age children, would be required to accept "suitable" work or job training, if offered. Yet neither this program nor the proposed manpower-training act provides any means to create more jobs. "Like the welfare proposal," argued A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "the manpower message outlines a training mechanism but suggests no plan -and provides no funds-for turning a trainee into a job holder. It is the Government that must be the employer of last resort, and on that subject the President's proposal...
Several critics also balk at the work requirement in the Nixon welfare program. They question the social value of forcing mothers of school-age children to accept employment or job training rather than staying at home with their youngsters. The requirement that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal...
...Mafia, which dislikes display, provides another reason for simple style. The late New York boss Vito Genovese, for example, used to drive a two-year-old Ford, spent little more than $100 for his suits, and lived in a modest house in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. When his children and grandchildren visited him, Genovese, very much the kindly paterfamilias, would cook them up a huge pot of spaghetti...