Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report showed that 2,100,000 welfare cases are over 65 and most of these are women; 700,000 suffer severe physical handicaps such as blindness; 3,500,000 are under 18, and 83% of these are under 14; the remaining 900,000 women and 150,000 men answering the welfare roll call are the indigent parents of these children...
Last week Harold Wilson's government published a 141-page report that showed for the first time just how bad things really are for Britain's colored. According to the report, 36% of all colored immigrants claimed specific instances of job discrimination, more than half had trouble getting car insurance (and those who got it often had to pay higher rates), and real estate agents refused to show colored men unfurnished apartments anywhere...
...hours later, while the Haitian capital was blacked out by one of its recurrent power failures. The toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
Russian Bugs. Not worth it, says a study group led by Biologist Norman Horowitz of the California Institute of Technology. In a report in Science, the scientists argue that Mars has too little oxygen or water and too much ultraviolet radiation to support the growth of earthly organisms, and that Venus apparently has surface temperatures high enough to kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces...
...pressure the Pope into siding with the majority-and soon. But the pressure seems to have had no noticeable effect; Paul has still to announce his long-awaited decision. Last week, in what was viewed as another evident attempt to hasten a liberal papal ruling, the National Catholic Reporter, an independent weekly published in Kansas City, printed the hitherto secret text of the commission's report...