Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before her tour ended, the chairman of the President's Commission on Rural Poverty, Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt, had announced in New York that this group is preparing a report on ways to make rural areas and small towns attractive enough to reduce the annual exodus of some 600,000 Americans to the cities...
Several different types of drugs are prescribed for the overweight, and if they do little good, they usually do little harm because most reducers take only one kind. But from Oregon last week came a report that at least six and possibly eight women have died, apparently as the result of taking five potent drugs put up, along with a laxative, in a six-pill "rainbow package." Three physicians had dispensed the combination packages, said Dr. Russell Henry, Oregon state medical examiner...
...Titicut Follies shows that, unhappily, not every institution for the mentally ill is as enlightened as Warrendale. Some are trapped in traditions as old as Bedlam, and one such is seen in this raw, poorly edited report on Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the Titicut area of Massachusetts. As filmed by Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make...
Last spring, former Dean of the College, John U. Munro, announced that the Office of Tests would study the impact of the present requirement on students, and would present its report to the Administrative Board...
...fare for a three-hour saving on a transatlantic flight. Improving the ground access to airports would accomplish the same time saving at much less cost, he feels. Oother investigators agree that consumer demand will be considerably less than current predictions. B. K. Lundbergh, a Swedish scientists, published a report last month on the problem of "dead time," the fact that the short flight time will make night flights to Europe extremely unpopular, since passengers would no longer be able to plan on getting a night's sleep during the crossing...