Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event it is hard to imagine how low-income people would be better off without an opportunity for higher education. Even from a radical standpoint the possibilities of radicalizing the lower classes seem greater inside the University than outside. I expect that conservative Congressmen see increased scholarships for low income students--at least blacks--as more of a threat to the establishment than an opportunity...
...best thing they've published in, like, two years. And their latest LP, "The Surprising Sheep and Other Mind Excursions," is a remarkable musical feat that's even been getting air play on Boston radio. All this in spite of the fact that the Lampoon had run upon hard times recently...
...Hard times means that the Lampoon didn't make the killing they expected to on their Life parody last fall. As my paternal grandmother used to say about my father, "their eyes were bigger than their stomach." Just before the Life press run, they jacked up the number they would print from 400,000 to 650,000. They could only sell half of them, and the rest are rotting in warehouses from Sheboygan to El Paso. They lost $15,000 on the $200,000 deal. That's big business...
Anyone who has tried to find a proper nursing home for an aged relative has suffered a special agony. Homes that offer merely adequate care and comfort are hard to find, and the demand for places in them is rising steadily. For one thing, the 65-and-over population, which is already approaching 20 million, is growing by 1.7% a year, compared with 1.3% for the total population. Government programs also subsidize the convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days...
...sweat of our hard-earned supremacy...