Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspects unless the crime is racially motivated (Black Panthers assaulting whites, for example). But the editor of the News, Martin Hayden, argues that most crimes are committed by "underprivileged, undereducated and deprived youngsters from the slum ghetto." Pointing that out, he contends, may persuade whites to support programs to help black youth and cause "reasonable black people to realize that there is a racial aspect to the current crime problem...
...that are described as "lifting bodies." Some of them will have retractable "switchblade" wings and enough maneuverability for landings at airfields instead of in the ocean. Eventually, Administrator Paine also hopes to cut the cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because...
...that moment, is more important than understanding what produced it. "Any time a person is desperate, something is wrong around him," says Dr. Frank S. Pittman III, director of psychiatric services at Grady Hospital. "The person says 'I am in an impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going to the hospital. They know something is wrong. And it is an enormous relief when we agree that something is wrong and when we listen...
...ritualistic tradition that the most convenient position for a woman during labor is lying on her back." This, he said, "actually forces the baby to move uphill." Lying on the side is more natural, and squatting -as any midwife knows-is best of all, since it allows gravity to help...
...year-old public-health official who began campaigning two years ago to change the TV image of cigarettes. Among his proposals: "admired characters" like Johnny Carson should stop smoking on camera, and TV series heroes should decline cigarettes offered them during climactic scenes. That, said Frederickson, might help dissuade the 4,000 young Americans who begin smoking every...