Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Burany of Milwaukee's WTMJ. "A guy has to be clean out of his head not to appreciate it." Often, a watcher cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband was stuck in the blizzard of '67 for five hours, a Chicago housewife wrote radio station WGN's two watchers: "How can I tell you boys just how grateful our city is? Bless you and your wings...
...plight of the hospital workers was an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. It gave them a chance to make their conception of the ideal labor union a reality. In addition, since most of the workers at Jewish Memorial are Roxbury Negroes, the union would provide them a good base for community organizing in the ghetto...
...plight of the patient in the 47 states with no legal control is understandably bad, but the resident of well-regulated California or New York is not necessarily safe either. Dr. Howard L. Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results...
...pivot of this debate: the Moynihan report a much suppressed, much leaked Labor Department document that strips away usual equivocations and exposes the ugly truth about the big city Negro's plight...
TELEVISION Ever since its birth in 1952, U.S. educational television has been lost somewhere between the Vast Wasteland and the Promised Land-chronically short of operating capital and always uncertain where the next grant was coming from. Concerned by ETV's continuing plight, the Carnegie Foundation in 1965 asked M.I.T. Corporation Chairman James R. Killian Jr. to head a commission charged with finding a solution.-Working with a $500,000 budget, committees and subcommittees made their recommendations, and commission members spent 28 days together agreeing on a report. Last week the foundation published Public Television: A Program for Action...