Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write in the hope that this letter will encourage a frank discussion of these problems. If such a discussion clarified American objectives in Viet Nam, it might help reverse the drift, which is now from confusion toward disaffection. Some questions...
...high cost of such innovations, London bookies were laying odds on the daily escape total. Crowds flocked to the moors to watch search parties-and it was usually quite a show. On one manhunt, three platoons of British commandos each brought along a bagpiper. How the skirling would help catch the quarry, no one said. London newspapers printed letters from Frank Mitchell, 37, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," who escaped last month and wanted it known that "I am sorry that my absence has caused certain people to think badly of men like Mr. Roy Jenkins...
...private practice. One of his first patients was the teen-age granddaughter of wealthy Shipbuilder Robert I. Ingalls. Dr. Callahan straightened the girl's crossed eyes, and on a hunch sent no bill. When Ingalls insisted on a settlement, Dr. Callahan told him that he would prefer some help toward starting a nonprofit hospital for eye patients. "How much?" asked Ingalls suspiciously. "Mr. Ingalls," said the doctor with studied boldness, "you're not noted for being a generous giver...
...doesn't, touring virtuosos take comfort in the fact that there is a "violin doctor" in many major cities on the concert circuit ready to make repairs. Sometimes though, it is the violinists who need help. "They're all the same," sighs Max Moller, the resident string doctor in Amsterdam, who is forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist...
...paper helped restore a sense of community to scattered Jews still left in Germany. It sponsored Jewish self-help societies, organized homes for children and the aged. Avoiding general news treated by the rest of the German press, the Weekly concentrated on news of Jews and became a consistent champion of Israel. Above all, the paper has addressed itself to the dilemmas of Jews living in a nation that not so long ago was hell-bent on exterminating them...