Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANDREW WILLIAMS' KALEIDOSCOPE COMPANY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams takes a musical trip by blending psychedelic lights and today's sound with the help of Guest Stars Ray Charles, The Raelets, Burt Bacharach, Simon and Garfunkel, and Mama Cass Elliott...
DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
Crisis Sunday. In Boston, Jewish philanthropies donated buildings valued at $1,250,000 for a community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
Although unsure of Harvard's exact financial position ("I have no knowledge of the University fiscal assets"), Traynham thinks Harvard might be able to join with other large stockholders in major companies to help set the company's path. He mentioned last spring's controversy between Kodak and Saul Alinsky as an example of a situation where socially-conscious stockholders could play a socially constructive role...
...largest single Federal grant, of $682, 491, was awarded to support the Anesthesiology Center for Research and Training. The smallest grant, $417, went to Dr. David T. Armstrong, assistant professor of Anatomy in the School of Dentistry, to help support a study of ovarian metabolism and steroid biosynthesis...