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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trainees (about 50% Negro) at 100 centers. The cost through June 30: $493 million. In many ways it is the bad boy-and occasionally the bad girl -of the poverty program, since its wards, as Shriver notes, are "dropouts from society before we get them. If we save three out of four, or two out of three, that's a miracle right there." Many arrive as complete illiterates; 79% have never seen a doctor, 85% a dentist. One in six has been rejected as unfit for military service. The camps have indeed had their problems-sodomy, knifings, thefts, riots...
...DeBakey concedes that a partial or even total artificial heart must be considered only a stopgap, until preventive measures against heart disease are perfected. But even if these were achieved tomorrow, he declares, "the present generation would require the benefits of a workable artificial heart." Such a device might save the lives of an estimated 300,000 U.S. heart-attack victims each year...
...typical case is that of Ward B. Myers, 38, who was supervising a construction job in Port Angeles, Wash., when his right foot was mashed in a boring machine. The foot became infected, causing osteomyelitis, and surgeons in Seattle's Swedish Hospital spent almost a year trying to save the leg. Myers endured twelve operations and almost constant pain-"like a toothache, it just kept pounding away." Early last month Dr. Ernest M. Burgess, whose team has had more experience with instant prostheses than any other U.S. surgeons, decided that the time had come to amputate Myers...
...church-partly because their church has historically been forever beginning, partly because it includes such men as Raines, who do seem to understand the need to modernize. "I get letters every day asking why we must get involved in what is termed extracurricular activities, why we can't save souls and let it go at that," says another forward-looking elder statesman, Bishop John Owen Smith of Atlanta, 63. "My answer is that the church has forever been involved in social issues...
...evidence from 461 witnesses and 337 attorneys, the ICC decided to approve because the merger's obvious economic advantages will make way for meaningful technological improvements. By scrapping hundreds of miles of competitive track, dozens of duplicating terminals and scores of overlapping maintenance plants, the two lines will save up to $100 million a year by 1974. More important to customers, the efficiencies of combination will cut the freight transit time by 11 % from New York to Chicago, 27% from Boston to Cincinnati, and 36% from Buffalo to St. Louis...