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...High-quality care on a charity or low-cost basis is available to the poor in relatively few places. Even in those places, low-income families are often reluctant to accept charity...
...interested citizen could become a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology. For $800 the New York College of Psychiatry would put him through a course leading to a doctorate of science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics...
...also makes obvious how much a luxury good modernism remains. Many of the buildings in the book are obviously pleasure domes of great expense. All of the buildings imply the services of a modern architect, beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks except in the case of a few new low-cost housing developments. Modern architecture for the general public still waits for public taste to demand it from reactionary building contractors and building-trade unions...
Beekeeping is a low-cost cinch, for a hive of bees requires only eight hours of care annually, as compared with an hour and a half daily for the family cow. And two or three mature doe rabbits will keep rabbit meat flowing to the table with almost beltline regularity...
Golf to Bridge. Local citizens' committees have arranged for golf and riding (only activities for which there is any charge), for dances and rainy-day bridge games. There are even provisions to mend uniforms, bring war-scattered records and pay accounts up to date, provide low-cost quarters for family visitors...