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...decided that in order to finance such expansion they needed a steadier source of capital which course fees now provide, SIMS-IMS, a non-profit educational institution, uses the money for literature, building and maintaining centers, and constructing training academies. American money will eventually help support sister centers in poorer countries. Geeslin said the organization now hope experiments showing TM's beneficial effects on drug abusers will bring Federal funds for their programs...
...panelists who support McGovern reject the charge of radicalism, and cite their candidate's honesty, his support of civil rights and his concern for the poorer classes. Beulah Stepp, an Independent who works with retarded children in Detroit, says McGovern "isn't being radical: he's being an honest politician, which is hard to find these days." Joseph Turner, a Democratic sewing-machine repairman from Roselle, N.J., believes McGovern is more likely to look out for the working classes and enforce the law of the land on matters like school integration. Charles Sage, a Clifton, N.J., scientist...
...assure French-Canadians of a larger role in Canada and particularly in government -which has cost him votes among English-Canadians. They have complained about French signs on post offices, and the use of their taxes to alleviate unemployment in Quebec, which is one of Canada's poorer provinces...
...female teeny-bashers are harder to catch than their male counterparts. They are seldom seen swaggering, boasting or clustering in gangs, and they affect no distinctive style of dress or appearance. Male criminals generally are products of the poorer sections of London, but some of the bovver birds come from such tony neighborhoods as Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea...
...result, Mrs. Freed's Social Security payments have risen by $27, to $162.40 a month, but she will be some $16 a month poorer after the increase than before. She is losing $22 a month in disability assistance, and the rent that she pays on a public housing apartment will go up automatically by $7 a month, to $33. Also, she will lose at least temporarily the ability to charge doctor and hospital bills to Medicaid...