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...workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border, he has arranged more than 200 harelip and cleft-palate operations for children he has found. One of his discoveries was the four-legged Mexican baby successfully operated...
...Annandale High School in suburban Virginia. The student helped Dr. Pollner round up 4,000 youngsters, who joined him in a 32-mile march. They raised $6,000 and won pledges of funds and equipment from the United Auto Workers, Hewlett-Packard and several pharmaceutical companies. Pollner's makeshift clinic won the support of the local white population in Mississippi and last summer attracted four registered nurses and some 30 student volunteers. They helped the doctor treat up to 50 patients a day. Now, Pollner observes: "The patients got better out of proportion to their treatment. They knew...
Harvard's makeshift defense, missing injured Kevin Hampe as well as Elliott, Burns and Noonan, collapsed at the end of the period as B.C. roared back with three quick goals. The Eagles' first line pressured Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna throughout the opening period, and Bertagna finally broke at 15:19 as Ed Kenty fed Scott Godfrey for an unstoppable goal...
Large-scale busing for integration is not a long-range solution to the inequalities that still afflict American society. It is a transitional inconvenience, an interim, makeshift answer to an awkward social problem. Many of the protests against it, accompanied by all the anguish and apprehension it causes in many white families, have a claim to respect. Yet, until bad schools improve and neighborhoods integrate, to outlaw busing would be to run the risk that the dangerous gulf between two nations ?one black, one white?could grow even wider...
...duty in the 55-acre compound to supervise the 2,250 prisoners. Moving swiftly, the convicts rushed through three of the quadrangular cell blocks (see cut) and set fires in six buildings. The chapel, prison school and machine shop were completely gutted. Quickly producing knives, pipes, baseball bats and makeshift spears fashioned from scissor blades and broom handles, the inmates captured guards and civilian employees for hostages...