Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Logue said the relevant government agencies--the Superintendent of Schools, the School Board ("now that one member has returned to the private practice of law--a salutary thing," he observed) and the Mayor--would cooperate, because they are all looking for help to solve the city's problems...
About 75 Harvard students spent their vacations cutting wood at Sandwich and Waltham to help ease the fuel shortage. Government experts spoke in Sanders Theatre on food conservation, and complaints about the meals served in Mem Hall and the Student Union lost much of their traditional passion...
...assets and no balance sheets," she explains, "and my board of directors couldn't give any personal guarantees." But before long, Miss Walker and the 16-member board of the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative found a hidden asset-in the fact that the people they were trying to help were willing to help themselves...
...Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are planning to let substantial contracts to test new technology that may cut building costs by as much as 15%. In Detroit, Contractor H. Fred Campbell persuaded both building inspectors and labor unions to ease some of their rules to help him start a $400,000 project in the largely Negro inner city. Partly by using new techniques, Campbell expects to offer a one-bedroom apartment for $80-a-month rent, well below that of competitive units. In South Bend, Ind., Home Builder Andrew Place has just sold a three-bedroom...
...while an abbot prayed) to drink wine, mixed by an alchemist, with lion's blood. As often as not, they gave birth to girls. And despite scientists' growing understanding of genetics, modern parents are unable to do any better in choosing the sex of their offspring. But help may be on the way. Two English scientists have devised a technique for controlling the sex of rabbits. Their method, the first to achieve 100% accuracy with any mammal, may some day be applied to humans...