Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smudgy photographs of an alleged "massacre" of Arabs by Jews and 32 "facts" about Israel that could have been written by Gamal Abdel Nasser. The newsletter also revealed that S.N.C.C. had its own problems. Accused of seeking Arab money, S.N.C.C. confessed it was financially in extremis. Pleaded its newsletter: "Help! Help! We're sinking fast...
Actually, there are 300,000 or more citizens with that kind of public spirit in the U.S., and police, fire and other authorities are quickly catching on to the kind of help they can give. During the recent riots in Detroit, for example, the police received some 500 calls from two-way radio operators alerting them to trouble spots. Elsewhere, from Providence, R.I., to San Francisco, at all hours of the day or night, such callers are saving lives, spotting fires, getting aid to accident victims, and even bailing out motorists stalled on expressways...
...some 50,000 citizen operators have been organized into 1,600 teams, each of which is required to maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
...hours of exposure, but still not fast enough to keep many invading viruses from multiplying in millions of cells and causing severe illness. It is effective against the whole catalogue of viruses, but its protection may last only two or three weeks. Nevertheless, researchers believed that if they could help the system produce interferon even before exposure, they could prevent many viral invasions from ever becoming established and causing illness...
...special assistant to President Johnson, served as U.S. Ambassador to Chile from 1964 until last month. Dungan is aware that a tough job lies ahead. But the position has some compensations. It pays $32,000, includes the use of a $90,000 mansion -which his seven children will help fill-and he can hardly lose, since there is no way for higher education in New Jersey to decline...