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...hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient put on his light to indicate he needed something, and a floor nurse would respond to discover whether this something was extreme unction or a bedpan...
...reversion to earlier form came on a foreign aid vote last week. Chronic optimists might argue that the defeat of a $312 million authorization for an affiliate of the World Bank shows a fervid aversion to foreign aid rather than an addiction to capricious obstructionism...
Lowe believes that the "ghetto system" has created chronic conditions which will not be relieved even by integration. "The problem is not so much segregation," but habits of mind that discourage Negroes from trying to improve themselves. Lowe himself ignored advice that he give up plans to attend college, and went on to earn a Masters in Education. He frankly admits that Negro students do not perform as well as white students. Negro enrollments would tend to "debilitate" presently all white schools. Under these circumstances, Lowe does not regard civil rights as the only worthwhile goal to be achieved...
...Truant. Marguerite and Lee moved in 1952 to New York City, where they took an apartment in The Bronx. At 13, Lee Oswald was a chronic truant, and The Bronx children's court referred him for psychiatric examination to the Youth House for Boys. Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs concluded that Lee had a schizoid personality and was potentially a "dangerous person who needed treatment." Says Probation Officer John Carro: "His environment was poor because his mother was in need of help herself." At one point during an examination, young Lee was asked what he would feel if he plunged...
...early 1940s, a U.S. Senate committee declared Puerto Rico's problems "unsolvable." The Caribbean island had a rapidly expanding population, few natural resources, hardly any industry, and chronic unemployment that sometimes ran to one-third of the labor force. In 1942, a rising young politician named Luis Munoz Marin organized a self-help program called Operation Bootstrap; a few years later, as Governor, he invited U.S. companies south, offering them political stability plus wide tax advantages and a vast reservoir of eager-to-learn labor. Ever since, Puerto Rico's economy has been one long, steady success story...