Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of their time filling sandbags for bunkers. The heat is oppressive, the mosquitoes abundant. The only place to go on liberty is Danang, a dreary city with a 10 p.m. curfew and varieties of venereal disease for which U.S. medical science has not yet come up with a cure...
...Cure by Prayer. Texas-born Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Maxwell D. Taylor, was the sprightly, popular treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further...
Instead, Mary Happer entered High Oaks, which takes only "dedicated, mature, seasoned Christian Scientists." She was treated by a Christian Science practitioner, who relied on prayer to work a cure. At least twice Miss Butts drove up from Bethesda to visit her friend. Each time, apparently, she became more concerned over Mary Happer's condition. Two days before Miss Butts's final visit, she had bought a gun. When they returned to Mary Happer's room at High Oaks after a drive in the country, Dorothy Butts stayed for nearly an hour and then shot...
...Single Cure...
...meaningful issues on which to focus. Organizing Southern Negroes is in many Ways much easier, because there is a readily identifiable enemy, an easily defined problem, and a built-in unity in race. But the problem of poverty is much more diffuse; there is no single enemy, no single cure. How can better garbage collection be related to a larger vision of a better society...