Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). In "The Hostile Environment," Dr. Loren Eiseley shows how the study of animals reacting to various situations can help man adjust to the conditions of outer space...
...past four months, seeing magnificent cathedrals, many situated in filthy poverty areas, I can say only one thing about Daniel Moynihan's remark: if the money that was spent on cathedrals in 20 centuries of Christianity (which came from the poor, directly or indirectly) had been used to help the poor, there may not have been three summers of rioting. Christianity's retreat from the humbleness that Jesus preached into self-glorifying magnificence has gone on long enough...
...first the duty of local police and local government." He added: "The front-line headquarters against crime is in the home and in the church and in the city hall and the county courthouse and the statehouse-not in far-removed Washington." But the Federal Government "can and should help the cities and the states in their war on crime, and this we shall...
...Senate, before the year is out, a treaty to halt nuclear proliferation; proposed an international program to tap the ocean depths; urged "a major expansion" of both the International Development Association and the Asian Development Bank; called for "a prudent aid program rooted in the principle of self-help"; and offered birth control advice to developing lands...
Sadder but presumably wiser, Illinois' freshman Senator Charles Percy last week wrote to three Chicago friends: "It was a mistake on my part not to realize that your well-intentioned desire to help would be subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation." With that, Chuck dissolved the controversial "Percy Group," a six-month-old fund-raising campaign intended to help the Senator defray his considerable office expenses...