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...self-care unit relieves St. Mary's of one of its biggest problems: finding enough nurses. Self-care requires a staff of only five for a 24-hour period, one-fourth the usual staff. The saving is passed along to the patient. A double room costs $14.50 as compared to $22.50 in the rest of the hospital; a single costs $16.50 compared to $28. St. Mary's carries no extra liability insurance on its mobile, self-care patients. Its position has been justified: only one person has had a slight accident...
Before leaving Washington, Symington set forth some of the problems that worry him. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he ticked off a grim list of the "liabilities" of the U.S.: "Recurrent large-scale unemployment; one-fourth of a nation living in poverty in a land of plenty; inflation, which hurts those most who need help most; millions of our senior citizens living on pittances; millions of our young people denied full educational opportunity; millions of farm families forced ever downward toward relative and absolute poverty; millions of families living in urban and rural slums; millions...
...figures: the tightly woven worsteds in 1960 will grab 37% of the boys' suit market, 48% of the student trade. Hop-sackings, a coarse, basket-weave pattern of cotton, linen, rayon or wool, will make up nearly one-fourth of both boys' and students' suits. Fading flannel will plummet to 21% of the junior market, a mere 14% of the undergraduate trade. Best explanation for flannel's worsting by worsted, from a buyer in New York's Old School Tie haberdashery. Brooks Brothers: worsteds weigh less, wrinkle less, wear longer-and now are being made...
...principals called for more English themes, even if teachers must enlist salaried assistants to help read and appraise them. At another meeting of U.S. school administrators in Atlantic City, N.J., Paul B. Diederich of the Educational Testing Service loosed a startling prediction: by 1970, U.S. colleges will be rejecting one-fourth of all applicants because they read and write so badly. Diederich's reason: soaring enrollment is killing English composition in the high schools...
...makeup is needed if an eighth-grader starts at once on the "solids" (English, history, math, science, foreign language), and especially on English composition. English is the key to college work; by 1970 an estimated one-fourth of applicants may be rejected because they get so little of it. This is why the most important college board exam today is the verbal aptitude test (scored from 200 to 800). Falling much below 500 is bad news-"infant damnation," cracks one educator...