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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sympathetic Voice. This modest effort in human relations was begun last March by the Senior Citizens' Pilot Project under the sponsorship of the Scott County Commission on Aging. Unlike the numerous Dial-a-Prayer switchboards and suicide-prevention centers, its purpose is neither to deliver canned messages of hope nor to cope with life-and-death crises, but to offer lonely callers a simple human connection. The service costs almost nothing: less than $700 a year for telephone equipment and a few office supplies. Not everyone can be a listener. "We're very selective about our volunteers," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Relations: The Listeners | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

TENTH--PANHADLE KANTAR was readied in spring for this route effort...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Speed Kills at the Track | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Horses which beat all comers at any distance have class. Except for a Man O' War who never is pushed to his limits, all horses have been extended to their best effort before the end of their three year old season. The classier the horse the faster he will run--when tested...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Speed Kills at the Track | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...shot of the passengers waiting for their truck at a gas station starts out as a simple portrait, but is interrupted as a Texaco gas pump passes before us in the foreground. Too bad these moments are structurally isolated, a few good ideas jumbled together in a rather muddled effort...

Author: By Joel Haycock>, AT THE ORSON WELLES AUGUST 3 THROUGH 5 | Title: Tropici | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...effort to change these circumstances the federal government, at the end of the Johnson days, decided to employ a Nixon type of solution in the Work Incentive Program (WIN). Enacted under the most flexible manpower act in the history of welfare, the program's function is to "increase the basic educational skills and employability of people under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC...

Author: By Robin B. Wright, | Title: 'WIN' Is Losing Its Battle To Get Poor Onto Payrolls | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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