Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is such a shortage of available males, she feels, that a girl has to use all her wiles to catch a man. "It is no longer a question of whether she does or doesn't," says Mrs. Brown. "She does. The question is, can she cope?" To help them cope, Mrs. Brown carefully scrutinizes the copy of Cosmopolitan, has even assembled a "manifesto" on good writing. It warns against the clichés of women's magazines such as "out of this world," "She weighed 102 Ibs. soaking wet," and "Most girls would give their eyeteeth...
Eventually, Hoffer will try his hand at such timely subjects as the coming elections. His political convictions, though, are no secret. "I want to help get Johnson elected," he says. "I have known Johnsons all my life. The greatness of the country is that it can produce so many. If he fails, I fail. If he succeeds, I succeed...
...Brooklyn-born Dancer Barbara Weisberger started a small ballet school in an old studio in Philadelphia. Funds at first were scarce; she and her two teaching colleagues paid themselves $20 a month, and at least once the landlord locked them out for nonpayment of rent. Thanks to some timely help from the Ford Foundation, the school grew into the Pennsylvania Ballet. Judging by its performances at Manhattan's City Center last week, it is one of the most promising of the new U.S. dance companies...
...With the help of a beagle named Ellie, Harvard doctors have completed research that could lead to a final cure for hemophilia...
Without the 6-6 star, Coach Floyd Wilson will be back in the old "no-shooters" bind. Chris Gallagher is one of the Ivy's top ten scorers and top five rebounders, but he won't get much offensive help...