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Such an approach requires large amounts of money and expertise, and some states have begun to supply both In 1966 Massachusetts passed the Com munity Mental Health Act, which se up regional boards to evaluate need; and plan facilities. Says Dr. Milton Greenblatt, the state's commissioner o mental health: "We're trying to phase down the institutions and close the snake pits." One large facility has been closed while the patient load at other, has been reduced. The Hathorne State School, a new center serving a region with a population of 900,000, provide in-and outpatient...
After heated protests from the Israelis, a compromise was worked out. Jean Cherioux, president of the municipal council of Paris and thus its unofficial mayor, will attend the theater ceremonies as the city's representative. Afterward, he, Kollek and other guests will attend a Comédie Française performance of Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences, which revolves around misunderstandings between lovers...
...They expect you to be able to say that a war will start next Tuesday at 5:32 p.m.," Walter Bedell Smith com plained when he was head...
...world," particularly the problems of the world's poor. He and one of his students have designed a simple radio that is being manufactured in Indonesia as a cottage industry under UNESCO sponsorship. Powered by heat rising from a candle, the radio looks ugly but costs only 90, com plete with an earplug. In Africa, Papanek and another student sought a cheap means of preserving food. Their solution: a "cooling unit" insulated by walls of native fiber. It works for twelve hours on 20 minutes of cranking, holds 4.5 cu. ft. of food and costs less than $6. Thousands...
...prongs on the floor like a deflated giant; its sockets gaze mournfully at the room; one feels an urge to speak gently to the thing and soothe its defeat. By contrast, Oldenburg's Heroic Sculpture in the Form of a Bent Type writer Eraser, 1970, which was com missioned - and then rejected - for an office plaza on Manhattan's 57th Street, is a veritable parody of the hero-figure - all attention and verticality, the hairs on its brush metamorphosed into ropes of braided steel cable...