Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUBLIC WORKS. The rich aroma of pork converts even the most ardent budget cutters into big spenders. "Sometimes you have to put that feeling of economy behind you," said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public...
...mother would have been proud of five such fine boys sitting on the dais at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, recipients of medals from the National Institute of Social Sciences "for their signal service" in all fields. There was Philanthropist John D. Ill, 61, who said that he was "the only one who was unemployed"; Nelson, 59, Governor of New York; Laurence, 57, who heads the brothers' charitable foundation; Winthrop, 55, Governor of Arkansas, and David, 52, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was their first public get-together since 1960, and John D. Ill was prompted...
...authoritatively about how they in their own great variety respond to the variety of demands the Peace Corps puts on them. I am sure that there are casualties: young men and women for whom the experience is one of unalleviated failure who return more defeated than they went, as ill at ease in Ethiopia as in America. Others learn to handle the inevitable failures better, partly because they have the happy prerogative of amateurs not to be required to succeed from the start and partly because Peace Corps service is seldom a single assignment, but rather an assortment of successive...
...year later, in 1955, the dance group directed the writing and producing of a pageant about the life of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Miss Dix, famous for her campaigns to improve treatment of the mentally ill, was instrumental in the federal government's founding of St. Elizabeth's a century before...
Miss Chace was instrumental in the development of techniques of dance therapy. Recently institutionalized in the form of the American Dance Therapy Association, dance therapy is now used throughout the country. But each therapist, usually a dancer herself, has individualized methods of dealing with a group of the mentally ill...