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Meanwhile, Brown, which gave Harvard quite a bit of trouble in last year's quarterfinals, is virtually a hopeless case as far as a bid is concerned. The Bruins have lost 10 of their 18 games, and have contests with Harvard and Cornell remaining. And Yale, as is its custom, is still another year away...
...psychiatric journals; many "have a flesh-and-blood loyalty to one another, a disarming code of honor, a sharp, critical eye for the fake and the pretentious." Confessed one elementary-school teacher: "That was the hardest thing for me to realize?that a ghetto child isn't a hopeless case or already a delinquent when he comes into the first grade...
...successful) and save the SST (unsuccessful). When the housing industry slumped in the late 1960s, home builders pressured the Government to increase subsidies greatly; under the present Administration, the number of federally assisted housing starts has jumped 150%, to almost 400,000. After passenger rail service had become a hopeless drain on profit, Congress last year relieved the railroads of that burden by creating Amtrak, the Government-sponsored rail corporation...
...from similar facilities in other states is sudden exposure. Parents, legislators and newsmen have recently made headlines by attacking the system that allows such a place to exist. In the process, they have won some small sops for Willowbrook's pathetic prisoners. More important, they have shown how hopeless and archaic is the custodial approach to the problem of mental retardation...
...care for them. One building designed to accommodate 188 currently houses 250 severely retarded and seriously disturbed adolescent girls in conditions so crowded that one bed must often be moved in order to reach another. Training of any kind is nonexistent, though recent experience elsewhere has shown that seemingly hopeless cases can benefit from professional attention. The girls spend their days sitting, standing or lying in a large, marble-floored room that resembles Sar tre's vision of hell. Bare and highceilinged, its walls covered with flaking green paint, the room is redolent of sweat, urine, excrement-and despair...