Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until she is 14 does the play show Dorothea happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston, at 23, Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves so reluctant to give up work in the school...
...widowed mother came from Puerto Rico; they lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small...
Last month, shortly after Neighbor Britain announced that it would build H-bombs, Premier Edgar Faure announced almost casually that France would follow suit. "If things go on as they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher...
...employers against paying total disability compensation for injuries to an already handicapped worker. But the biggest reason for the lag is that businessmen simply do not think that the handicapped are good workers. Actually, a handicapped worker in the right job does just as well as his able-bodied neighbor. Says the National Association of Manufacturers, in its Guide in Hiring the Physically Handicapped: "In the past decade, production records of thousands of physically handicapped persons in industry indicate beyond any question that socalled 'handicapped' workers are equal to-and in some instances better than -their able-bodied...
...modern machine politician (which he also is). He had the support of Adlai Stevenson, Senator Paul Douglas and Hearst's Chicago American. Every day, after breakfast with his wife and children, he went campaigning with a baby-blue Cadillac and great dignity ("as a good father, good neighbor and good citizen"). That was good enough. On election day Democrat Daley won by 126,667 votes (out of 1,342,993 cast), the machine's smallest victory margin since...