Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe students reacted with the expected mixture of aloofness and indifference yesterday to the plight of their sisters at Vassar. Sarah Gibeen Blanding, president of Vassar, recently told her students that women who engage in premarital sex relations or excessive drinking should leave college...
...Kansas City at the time, and so he authorized Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to replace him at a meeting of plantation owners in Cleveland, Miss. Acheson omitted the particulars, but his general message was clear: the United States ought to be conscious of Europe's post-war plight and ought to offer...
...Meany, marginal workers such as married women, the very young, and the elderly are too discouraged to seek work. This, says Meany bitterly, "helps the unemployment statistics some, but it doesn't help the unemployment problem at all." Labor Department Manpower Expert Seymour Wolfbein, however, believes that the plight of the marginal worker has its bright side: if young people concentrate on getting more education and if less efficient workers stay at home, the U.S. work force should increase its productivity, to the ultimate benefit of the whole economy...
...March 14 The Indiscriminate Woman (NBC, 3-4 p.m.).* A study of the plight of the wom an who tries to escape inner conflict by engaging in fleeting affairs. Starring Carol Lawrence and Dane Clark. Pauline Fred erick narrates. Color...
Thus far, only writers, editors and publisher have appreciated the dangers represented by the postal department's bill. The eSnate, through the hearings it is now conducting on it, will have the double task of awakening the general public to the small magazines' plight, and ensuring modification of the bill...