Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, the city council voted another $536,000 for nurses' salaries; now White is asking the council to restore a third of his budget cuts. Most of this extra money would go for emergency renovation, so that the hospital can retain at least its probationary status. Help may come from Washington, where Massachusetts' Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been plugging for federal loans to crisis-ridden municipal hospitals. But the question remains whether the financial therapy will be quick and massive enough to save Boston City...
...Night Shift. Most Wall Street firms have abandoned their traditional 9-to-5 day, working clerical staffs overtime and Saturdays, often hiring night shifts to help with the load. Even with newly instituted training programs, brokers complain that they cannot find enough qualified help, though able receiving and billing clerks often earn $200 a week. "Clerical workers no longer apply for a job," says Vice President Charles Rosenthal of L. M. Rosenthal & Co. "They come over for coffee and doughnuts and discuss their careers...
...world monetary liquidity, the IMF's 107 member nations were in the process of ratifying, one by one, creation of a new kind of international money, called special drawing rights, to supplement dollars, pounds and gold. S.D.R.s, bookkeeping entries designed to expand the reserves of individual countries, should help bankroll world trade. But, warns Bank for International Settlements President Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, they "are not a panacea for the difficulties that must be dealt with...
...great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made the German company bullish on bears; the following year it sold 974,000 cuddly Teddy bears...
Watts Wreckage. What speaks most eloquently, both black and white museum sponsors have found, is not art produced by the cultural ancestors of white America. Most ghetto exhibitions are carefully tailored to their audiences, designed to help meet the widely voiced demand from Negroes for more information about their neglected Afro-American heritage. Currently, several dozen projects are under way in about 20 cities, financed by $400,000 worth of seed money from the National Endowment for the Arts, by states' arts councils, private benefactors and locally raised nickels and dimes...