Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tattered Dollars. The President talked as usual about the Viet Nam war, his chief preoccupation for many months, and did a little politicking in favor of Democratic Congressmen who need his help in November. But he kept going back to the theme of the cities' problems. In Buffalo, he studied with obvious distaste a bucketful of sludge from a river that feeds Lake Erie, vowed that he would press the fight against pollution-mostly a result of the cities' industrial waste-so that "this great inland sea will sparkle again." In Syracuse, he scored those who "line their...
Noting that he had sent to Congress "a broad program to help solve the problems," the President put the legislators on the spot by presenting an extraordinary litany of requests. "Give us action, give us progress, give us movement, and American cities will be great again. Give us funds for the Teacher Corps. Give us more resources for rent supplements. Give us the civil rights bill. Give us the means to prosecute the war against poverty. Give us the child-nutrition act. Give us the hospital bill. Give us the money for urban mass transit." And so on, through...
...less prominent medical program has worked out: a system called Medicaid, which was set up by Title 19 of last year's Social Security Act. While Medicare covers persons over 65 through the social-security system, Medicaid is a federal-state-local venture to help the "medically indigent" regardless of age. States wishing to participate were to establish phased programs, with each state defining its own standards of indigence. Already, 19 states have started programs and several more are preparing them. Some are being far more liberal in their eligibility rules than anyone had predicted. The original estimate...
...forehead and braided on top as it has been for the past 20 years, has been lambasting Pell for weeks, touring factories and stores with a firm handshake, steady blue eyes and a brisk "I'm Colonel Briggs running for the U.S. Senate and I hope you will help me in November." A Barrington fisherman summarized the surprise of many who are approached by the colonel: "I heard about this colonel, but I didn't know she was no dame...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled...