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G.P.s as Clerks. The major complaint of doctors comes from G.P.s. They say they are overworked and underpaid. Their average of $6,800 a year is close to par for all British professional men (generally underpaid by U.S. standards), but is only about half what the specialists make. Worst of all, for general practitioners, is their feeling that they are being reduced to the status of medical clerks. Says a Yorkshireman: "The G.P.'s job is to be a sorter and referrer...
Imperfect Science. The foster home program has its own problems. In general, social workers are overworked and chronically underpaid. In Long Beach, Calif., the case load (one visit per month to the foster home) is 65 per social worker; in Miami it is 40. In some instances, foster parents turn out to be no better than some parents for whom they substitute. Only two months ago the Los Angeles foster parents of a five-year-old girl "punished" her by tying her to the bathroom shower fixtures with a length of TV antenna wire; she was dead of strangulation...
...Shifts in Europe. Foreign markets, of course, have a lot of catching up to do. Western Europe's middle class is broadening, and its working class, though still woefully underpaid by U.S. standards, is rapidly working up to the point where, as General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner says, "the bicycle rack is being replaced by the parking...
...every child should go to the common school, where the proportion of high school graduates has long ranked high and illiteracy low among all the states of the Union-education is no longer a prime concern. Budgets are cut. Federal aid is opposed. Teachers and faculties are harassed and underpaid." The result is "a steady exodus of young people." Nebraska is "old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place...
...well-informed member of the press who had studied at DU's graduate school said, "By Ivy league standards, Denver is a third-rate institution, especially weak in the humanities and liberal arts, and with practically no endowments." He did comment, however, that its underpaid Faculty resents favoritism toward athletes: "The athletes don't slide through this place. The Faculty is not anxious to do any favors or make any exceptions for campus heroes...