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...twelve PBH volunteers who enter the ward each Tuesday afternoon face the task of communicating with these people, who have been left to spend the rest of their lives in the chronic section of the Metropolitan State Hospital. Only a few of the fifty patients in ward E-3 have much chance of leaving, but the volunteers, if they are successful, can move them a long way toward recovery. At the very least, they can bring friendship and social contact to patients who may have been in the ward for 20 or 30 years...
...ranked third-highest among state mental hospitals; yet, it employs practically untrained attendants (some of whom were once patients themselves) and only eight doctors for more than 1800 chronic cases. When a patient first enters the hospital, he is placed in a modern, well-staffed building and given excellent treatment; but if he is unable to leave after six months he moves to the "back wards," and receives virtually no therapy...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...jobs but, thanks to automation, are actually employing fewer workers. The U.S. economy has shifted from an industrial to a service economy, where 55% of the working force is engaged in performing services instead of turning out products. The need for unskilled labor is disappearing so fast that chronic labor shortages actually exist in some areas where not enough trained men are available. The paradox
...Wind. Though foot-and-mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd...