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Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout. Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. It was that kind of attitude that turned the poor to quacks who at least remembered their names and soothed their emotional if not their physical needs. in houses just outside the project. But fewer families in these homes--one-third of them--are without a father. And fewer of the women running these houses are on welfare: 75 per cent of them as compared with nearly 100 per cent in the housing project...
...Second Voice. With a knack for administration that was to serve him so well in New York, the young priest brought American publicity techniques to the Vatican, introducing such novelties as the mimeographed handout and the background news conference. The first voice heard on Vatican Radio in 1931 was the Pope's; the second was Spellman...
...Methodist Church. When a much-liked cop in the city resigned, it was the Glide Foundation that gave him a farewell party-and more than 6,000 persons, ranging from the mayor to a motorcycle gang, showed up to celebrate. Almost any time a San Francisco derelict needs a handout, a prostitute needs an encouraging word, a busted hippie needs a pad, they can count on help from Glide...
...patient and out-patient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled to the state's income level: 50% for New York and California for exam ple, 65% for Utah. (It would be 83% for Mississippi, if that recalcitrant state were to participate...
...Civil Aeronautics Board. That should be a snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...