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...games have progressed though, rapidly accumulating fouls and tiredness have tended to make the switches imperfect, giving the opponents chances for the short jump shot...
...Imperfect Science. The foster home program has its own problems. In general, social workers are overworked and chronically underpaid. In Long Beach, Calif., the case load (one visit per month to the foster home) is 65 per social worker; in Miami it is 40. In some instances, foster parents turn out to be no better than some parents for whom they substitute. Only two months ago the Los Angeles foster parents of a five-year-old girl "punished" her by tying her to the bathroom shower fixtures with a length of TV antenna wire; she was dead of strangulation...
Social workers carry imperfect science to absurd heights. Says A. J. Montanari, who runs a private home for rejected children in Hialeah, Fla.: "To avoid the risk of failure, social workers set up so many standards that most people can't qualify, and we have thousands of children who stay in institutions because no one is allowed to take them." In a famed case last year, New Jersey state welfare workers tried unsuccessfully to take a four-year-old girl from her foster parents so that another couple could adopt her. The official reason: the foster parents were...
After those three absolute requirements, what are the possibilities for diplomatic give and take? Many have been considered, but none is perfect and most are perilously imperfect. Among them...
...carry out either of those basic purposes, the U.N. is at best a very imperfect instrument. The Security Council, controlled by five major nations of disparate ambitions, rests solely upon power. But liberty really rests upon law, and this principal failure of the U.N. Charter was noted by the late Republican Senator Robert Taft ten years ago: "The fundamental difficulty is that [the U.N. Charter] is not based primarily on an underlying law and an administration of justice under that law." Moreover, with the threat of Security Council veto creating a stalemate of power, decisive action must come from...