Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Nurses: Crisis in Medicine" studies the alarming shortage of nurses, the changing nature of health-care services, and the day-to-day problems that specialized nurses face. Among others visited by Narrator Eddie Albert: Dr. Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Into the Labs. Last week's workshop demonstrated that professional apathy has begun to wane. In the universities and in the National Institute of Dental Research, most of the focus is on periodontal disease, which actually claims three times as many teeth as do cavities when people are past 35. To date, the main preventive treatment has been regular cleaning to remove the bacteria-containing film and tartar. Within two years, several commercial firms may be marketing new anti-periodontal-disease products in the form of toothpastes and mouthwashes...
...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach get together in "The song-makers," explaining how they test-and play to-the public's ever-changing taste. Repeat...
...coworkers, Ralph Nader-Moynihan wrote a piece on Democratic politics that attracted Sociologist Nathan Glazer, who asked him to write a chapter on the Irish for a book on New York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink...
...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The tragic never-never world of young addicts is explored during a group therapy session at Staten Island's Daytop Village in "Marathon: The Young Drug Users...