Word: self-help
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Throughout America there is an untapped source of assistance to communities among students, adults, and the elderly. Opponents of the service corps would do well to realize that it is through the national service corps that community self-help can become a reality...
Since Synanon House set itself up in Santa Monica four and a half years ago as a mutual self-help cure station for drug addicts, it has seen its fame spread across the country. And for good reason. Addicts given intensive treatment at special federal hospitals have a relapse rate as high as 90%; Synanon, which models itself on Alcoholics Anonymous and uses ex-addicts to give junkies the support and understanding they need to kick the habit and stay clean, has cut the relapse rate...
...that The Beauty Part sounds as if it were printed on the stage rather than performed on it. Parody is, at best, a parasitic form, no stronger than the host body it is fastened to, and in this case the host is junky novels, flea-brained Hollywood scenarios, self-help journals, and ad jingles. Pop culture is turned into pop parody, and the fun runs thin...
...base his life's main work. He had helped create the Scranton Industrial Development Co. with his father (who contributed $50,000) to attract new industry in 1914. After World War II he was the leading figure in developing the "Scranton Plan." Still widely copied, it is a self-help program in which a community buys or builds industrial facilities, then leases them to firms willing to move to the city. The plan eventually drew more than 50 plants and 10,000 new jobs to Scranton...
...subcommittee whacked $1.1 billion-or about 24%-from Kennedy's $4.7 billion foreign aid program. Passman pushed the slash through the full Appropriations Committee, then through the House itself. The long-term Development Loan Fund (aimed at easing Allies like Greece and Iran into a realistic self-help economy) was cut by more than one-third, defense assistance by one-seventh, defense hardware by one-eighth, the Alliance for Progress by one-eighth, etc. Passman also inserted into the appropriation bill a ban against aid to any country "whose government is based upon that theory known as Communism." This...