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...resources-public and private, in terms of money and know-how-necessary for these and other programs are enormous. Thus the prospect is not for rapid breakthroughs in mental retardation, but for chipping away at a problem that will persist in major proportions indefinitely. Meanwhile, some parents will feel that they are on the same journey that Pearl Buck described in her book about her own retarded daughter, The Child Who Never Grew, that they are taking their children "over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal...
...army commander of Ankara, for instance, closed down a display of pictures of President Nixon's China visit, sponsored by the Turkish-American Association. Showings of two U.S. movie classics, Citizen Kane and The Grapes of Wrath, were halted because their themes were considered too controversial. Reports persist that some antigovernment critics who were jailed in the crackdown have been tortured...
Thus, the movements persist. In Chile, the M.I.R. (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), which is militant but has seldom employed murderous tactics, has made a strong appeal to landless peasants in the southern part of the country. With only token resistance from the police, they have seized more than 150 farms and illegally occupied 2,000 or so apartments in government housing projects this year. Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, has been reluctant to move decisively against the squatters for fear of further weakening his already shaky left-wing coalition of support. Last week, a massive protest parade in Santiago...
...sanctuary counsellors admit all their difficulties: barriers of class, race, sex, and the inherent inequality of a counselor-client relationship. Refusing to see their work as social service, or themselves as professionals, they persist in trying to make ideals work in the most trying and disheartening practical situations. And quite often, they fail...
...number of image patterns persist and recur, forming a kind of psychograph of the way women are viewed in modern drama...