Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...I.A.C.P. was founded in 1893, but after the '20s and '30s, when it helped push police reform, it faded into little more than a great-to-see-you group. Then, six years ago, Quinn Tamm arrived. A careful FBI agent who had made his way up to the rank of assistant director, Tamm found six staffers working out of makeshift Washington offices when he took on the I.A.C.P. job. Now there are 70 on the staff, and the association has its own building. The white-haired, leathery-faced Tamm, 57, has placed particular emphasis on upgrading the training...
Other active programs of a more preventive nature include a youth project, with picnics and social meetings, and a kind of Addicts Anonymous, run by ex-Pusher and Addict "Sonny" Long, which sponsors meetings twice a week for self-help discussion...
...Christians and, as such, do not get involved in political questions," says Neil Brenden. "We're here to do a job." Adds Father Robert L. Charlebois of Gary, Ind., Viet Nam director of CRS: "We are here on the invitation of the government of Viet Nam to help needy people. We don't care how their need has arisen as long as they are truly in need...
...brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...
...York University and, after a brief tour as a Left Bank painter, began scratching a living as an architectural draftsman in Manhattan. After a while, he caught on as a designer of commercial interiors and in 1936 joined Loewy, one of industrial design's pioneers, to help fashion the cabins of TWA's Boeing Stratoliners. Snaith became a partner in 1944, managing partner in 1956, and president in 1961. Loewy, now 74, still retains half ownership of the company, but spends six months of the year abroad running a separate French firm...