Word: infirmities
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Bypassed. As frustrating as such attitudes are to U.N. officials-who would like to close down the European camps-the fact is that "permanent" camp dwellers like the Bojarskis have learned cynicism in a hard school. Largely the aged, the infirm or diseased, or those classified as "asocial" -such as unwed mothers or the "politically unreliable"-they have watched one of the great migratory thrusts of modern history refuse them passage. Since 1947, about 1,500,000 European refugees have been resettled around the world, chiefly in the U.S. (470,000) and Australia (240,000), Canada (186,000), Israel...
...action. From Berlin, Western powers draw back their most accurate intelligence of what is going on in Eastern Europe. More important, Berlin constitutes the Soviet empire's greatest escape hatch. Through West Berlin every day there still pass some 250 East Germans-not just the aged and infirm, but the ablest and most vigorous citizens of an East German satellite crucial to Moscow's economic and political plans...
...millenniums on the aging process and the aged. It holds that while aging is inevitable, many of the distressing changes so often seen with it can be palliated, minimized or actually averted. For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases...
...generations, poorer Singapore Chinese have sent their infirm relatives to spend their last days in what the proprietors call "sick receiving homes," but what most of Singapore knows as "dying houses." For $3.33 a month, the two houses on Sago Lane provide a bed for each patient, see that food is brought in from outside, summon doctors (whose chief duty is to write death certificates), and provide a funeral...
Leading the Blind. Witnesses told the committee of cases throughout the U.S., mostly involving the old, the infirm, the widowed, or those who had simply reached the end of the line. Another soft touch is the blind: they cannot read the contracts. Said Donald McClure, California's assistant real-estate commissioner: "This is one of the most vicious rackets we've ever had to deal with...