Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that they will push: President Johnson's program to build 6,000,000 homes for low-income families over the next decade, which last week was approved by the Senate; an Administration proposal to help industry create 500,000 jobs for the hard-core unemployed; food programs for 256 counties designated as emergency hunger areas; and repeal of a freeze in the number of recipients under the Aid for Dependent Children program...
...second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports out of world markets; tight money induced by Government borrowing to meet current bills could squeeze interest rates up to 10%, provoke a slump in new housing, and snap the string of 87 months of economic advance. The President's surrender virtually assures passage of the corrective...
...down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded, and by sheer force of will-and with some help from the French army-De Gaulle triumphed in perhaps the greatest crisis in his long service to France...
...would like to help bridge those two worlds as a social worker, has been accepted for graduate study at the Columbia School of Social Work. She admires those of her generation-including both of her two older sisters?who have joined the Peace Corps. But she expresses the consensus of her class in insisting that there is a more urgent need for service in U.S. cities. Even the suburbs need help, she adds wryly: "A lot of white suburban society is sick...
Blind and deaf after a sudden illness at the age of 19 months, she later became, with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal living and language skills...