Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admirable though it is, her work does not work, precisely because it is all work and no play. She gets little help. Andre Previn's score always misses, without ever swinging. Beaton's costumes are a slight modification of the timeless Edwardia that he prefers to inhabit, and scarcely reflect the spare Mondrian modern that is the mark of Chanel. Lerner's book manages to suggest a rough draft rather than a finished libretto. He must be somewhat chagrined that the biggest laugh of the evening comes when Hepburn spits out the short word for excrement...
...title of Fox's group derives from his conviction that "when you help others, you grow yourself?and you find the need to grow and develop further." His almost mystical approach has been criticized as unrealistic by a good friend. Father Harry Browne, a Manhattan pastor who has made his own considerable imprint on urban redevelopment mainly through political methods. Browne, for ten years president of the Stryckers Bay Neighborhood Council redevelopment project on the West Side, now heads St. Gregory's parish in the same neighborhood, where he has mobilized voter-power to get better housing, schools and police...
...supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited with starting dozens of job-training centers across the country. The Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Operation Breadbasket," on Chicago's South Side, is nationally famous for its community action...
...ourselves out there leading the army magnificently, but when we looked back, the army wasn't there." Now he soldiers quietly by employing his affluent congregation in the task of finding low-cost housing for less prosperous families. The congregation recruits bankers, mortgage lawyers and other professionals to help low-income families find and purchase FHA homes. The congregation commits itself to advise and assist such families for the life of the mortgage...
Gasoline ads have generally ignored air pollution, concentrating on better mileage and higher performance for engines. Last week Standard Oil of California began to use pollution control as a promotional tool. It will market a variety of its Chevron gasoline that, it says, will help produce cleaner air. The gas contains an additive called F-310 that, according to claims, holds down the engine deposits that cause deterioration of emission-control devices and removes accumulated deposits. The additive will also, of course, "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." To be introduced in California and Hawaii next month...