Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With all due respect and admiration for the three ill-fated astronauts, I cannot help wondering if our space program and its nebulous goals justify the past, present and future sacrifices and costs involved, and at the expense of down-to-earth domestic programs...
Despite his relatively modest demands, which Congress will almost certainly slim still further, Johnson proposed some pragmatic innovations, mostly in the methods by which the U.S. doles out the dollars. He hopes to sweet-talk-or strong-arm-other nations and international organizations into cooperating to help needy nations and, in turn, to encourage recipient nations to cooperate with their neighbors in regional development programs...
With their contacts in the slums, they could alert authorities to trouble, help stave off riots. Juvenile delinquents might also be rehabilitated more successfully in their home communities than in reform schools; a five-year California experiment along this line, said the President, has shown "dramatically impressive" success in turning errant youths from all-too-promising careers in crime...
...neglect of its youth was exhaustive. Some 14.5 million young under 17 live in families too poor to feed and house them adequately. One million will drop out of school this year, most to join the ranks of the unemployed. More than 3.5 million poor children who need medical help do not receive it and nearly two-thirds of all poor children have never visited a dentist...
...class dean be to 840 students? How many students talk personal problems over with professors? The only real personal advisor the Wellesley student has is the House Mother. Each dorm has one House Mother, who is usually an older single or widowed woman living by herself. How much help can she be? A common obstacle to freshmen adjustment is that almost half of the girls entering Wellesley are involved in a relationship with a boy "from home." No matter how well-meaning the House Mother, age is crucial in this case...