Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEGREGATION IS NO SOUTHERN MONOPOLY. The vast Negro influx into Northern cities is spreading a new problem: de facto segregation. In New York City more than half the schools are in fact "segregated." Result: lower standards, poorer teachers, glaring evidence that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Last week proudly tolerant New Yorkers were reminded that the nation's leading unfinished morality play is being staged on their own doorsteps, as well as in Atlanta and Little Rock. For a provocative report on a subtle sociological disease, see EDUCATION...
Along with the problem of too little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head...
...question of the crop supports that produce the U.S.'s whopping annual food surpluses, Benson was obliged to make some embarrassing qualifications about the free market and subsidized U.S. agriculture. But nobody in Poland doubted for a moment that Wladyslaw Gomulka would cheerfully exchange his own farm problem for Ezra Benson...
Booties for All. Surgeons rated hospital infection as the most pressing problem aired at Atlantic City: 2,000 of them jammed a morning-long session to discuss it. and among the scientific exhibits the biggest crowds were around a booth where the Huggins Hospital of Wolfeboro, N.H. demonstrated its exacting anti-infection routines. Here Administrator Stanley Read and Boston University's Surgeon Ralph Adams (who operates at Huggins) spelled out the steps on the road to safety...
Last week the problem in New York City was attacked on two fronts: an angry report by the American Jewish Congress on de facto segregated schools, an exciting new effort by the city's board of education to uplift such schools...