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Henry Dietrich earns a modest $125 a week at his job exercising horses at a race track not far from his Broward County home in Davie, Fla. When doctors told him that his oldest son Jody, 6, was suffering from a serious heart defect that would require treatment costing $2,500, Dietrich was hard pressed to come up with the money. What's more, he apparently misunderstood hospital administrators when they told him that they would appreciate a deposit before admitting his son. They were not demanding any money in advance, they said later. But no matter. Dietrich told...
...attack him. During a family sidewalk fracas, a pregnant woman was pounded about the abdomen by a patrolman; although the woman has four other normal children, the infant born after that beating has a drooping eyelid, a bone protruding from his chest and a congenital heart defect...
This was not the first time that the U.A.W. tradesmen had been rebellious. They began agitating for special treatment in the late 1950s, threatening to defect to other unions or to form their own. By letting them veto parts of the contract, union chiefs put down the insurrection, though uprisings still occur and probably will continue...
...happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with the full cooperation of the Disney Archives and published, at $45, by Harry N. Abrams. The text has one defect: it is much too unctuous. Nevertheless the book reveals more clearly than anything written before the intricacy of the collaboration that went on in the studio in its earlier and better years. Finch resurrects from anonymity or near oblivion such artists and animators as Fred Moore, Bill Tytla...
...Patrick Moynihan points out in The Public Interest, youth of the 1960s was highly isolated from the rest of society. And in isolation is bred arrogance and unworldliness. Age, on the other hand, did not have the benefit of easy contact with youth. There was a tendency either to defect rather mindlessly to youth, accepting uncritically an alteration of values, or to develop a siege mentality and fear and resent one's own children. It was all too easy, depending on one's point of view, to hold youth responsible for what was good in society...