Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian Singer Um Kalthoum, who barely two months ago was inciting the Arabs with breathy ballads about Israel's coming defeat, has a new job. She is directing a campaign to collect gold, jewelry and stashed-away cash to help Egypt's battered economy. If her daily pleadings have not convinced the Egyptians of the costliness of their rout by Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser has. Last week he promised his people "a real, cruel and difficult struggle ahead." And "economic struggle," he told the fellahin, "means economic sacrifice. We must eliminate all privileges...
...about happenings 4.6 billion years ago, including possibilities of how chemical elements and the planets were formed." To enlarge these studies, balloons are now being lofted to capture cosmic-ray tracks. And when astronauts return with lunar soil one of these days, Walker & Co. will be on hand to help date the moon...
...Minute Hearings. Juvenile folklore is only part of the instruction at the four-week summer college that winds up this week at the University of Colorado. Conducted by the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, the school is designed to help the jurists learn criminal-law procedure and adjust to the Supreme Court's recent decision In the Matter of Gault, which gives juveniles many of the same constitutional safeguards that adults enjoy. Because of the decision and recommendations by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, juveniles are emerging from legal limbo...
...same, most of the nation's current 3,000 juvenile court judges urgently need help in adjusting to change. Despite enormous case loads (the 15-to-17 age group has the highest crime rate), the juvenile judge is often low man in the judicial hierarchy. One-fifth of juvenile-court judges never attended college; about half have no undergraduate degrees. Although the system emphasizes rehabilitation, one-third of the full-time judges have no probation officers or social workers available...
...Brussels concierge, who in 1912, to stir up religious interest in the industrial slums, started organizing cell-like groups of young adults, thereafter for five decades stumped the world marshaling 14-to-30-year-olds into the Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne (Young Christian Workers), a left-of-center self-help movement that today counts 2,000,000 members in 69 countries; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium...