Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read a plaintive ad in the Wilmington News and Journal papers, Delaware's two statewide dailies, which last week opened their classified pages to the unemployed free of charge. The response from the unemployed was startling. "We were expecting 400, maybe 500 ads at most," says Classified Manager Thomas P. Grant Jr. In the first week, 1,095 jobless people-secretaries and executives, graphic artists and truck drivers, bartenders, librarians and engineers-sent in their pleas for work...
Lean Years. Although the institute has gone through lean years, volunteer farmers now turn up in droves; the institute's journal, edited by Todd's wife Nancy, has a growing circulation. Money has begun to come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...
...from only token admissions in 1968 to 20 per cent this past year. Yet these changes in female and minority admissions are not changing the class divisions in medicine. Harvard Med has 71 per cent from the upper middle class last year. An analysis by Dr. Navarro (New England Journal of Medicine, Feb. 20) has shown the upper middle class male compsoition (93.1 per cent) of doctors in medicine similar to the rest of corporate and professional America. Yet the working and lower middle class which forms the hugh labor force in health care is discriminated against...
...Jews largely of German descent and initially opposed to Zionism (a position long since abandoned), it has 40,000 members and an annual operating budget of $9 million. Its general purpose is to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews, and reduce prejudice. It publishes the lively intellectual journal Commentary (circ. 60,000) and the American Jewish Year Book...
...ostensible reason for Mihajlov's trial was the publication, since 1971, of four of his articles by Posev, a stridently anti-Moscow Russian-language journal published in Frankfurt by Soviet émigrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting...