Word: companionship
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...manhood, the other soon approaching that state." Beside him on the City Hall dais stood Duncan, 18, a prep-school senior, in a sports coat and chinos, and Robert Jr., 21, who will graduate from Harvard this week, in a dark suit. "They have a claim upon me for companionship and counsel which I must now grant," Wagner said...
...Detroit, Michigan's Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court's award of $26,500 for "loss of society and companionship" to the parents of Linda Kay Hopkins, a Michigan State cheerleader killed at 21 in an auto collision five years ago. In rejecting the defendant's pleas that Linda's age made her independent, that her parents' means (they own three thriving Saginaw businesses) entitled them to no more than enough for funeral expenses, the court devised a formula calling for $1,000-a-year damages over the parents' remaining 26.5 years of expected...
...Bertha Haas, 68, a Bronx widow, spent an evening with an elderly woman friend at the Avalon Ballroom, a kind of senior citizens' dance hall on Broadway that forbids liquor and jitterbugging, caters to older people looking for gentle companionship. Later, Mrs. Haas and her friend stopped at a cafeteria for a cup of tea and a bit of cheesecake, then took the subway to The Bronx and separated. Mrs. Haas walked home. Next morning a porter in Mrs. Haas's apartment building saw blood on the lobby floor. He followed a trail of bloody streaks...
...energies go to resolve less ultimate tragedies. Last week, for example, one trouble team was dispatched to help a nearly blind pensioner who had called to say he had lost faith in life; the team cleaned up his dingy room, bought him food, and above all found him the companionship he needed. Life Line is so vital an addition to Sydney that it is listed on the telephone directory's page of emergency numbers, along with the police and fire departments. And Christians in Brisbane and Adelaide have been inspired to organize similar groups, using Life Line...
...They work hard and go their separate ways on separate assignments. But when they meet and unwind-in the field, in their homes or in the camaraderie of the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar-they pool their convictions, information, misinformation and grievances. But the balm of such companionship has not been conducive to independent thought. The reporters have tended to reach unanimous agreement on almost everything they have seen. But such agreement is suspect because it is so obviously inbred. The newsmen have themselves become a part of South Viet Nam's confusion; they have covered...