Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earliest stargazers, the planet Mars was a fearful omen suspended in the sky. The Babylonians took its strange reddish hue as a warning of bloodshed and fire, and the ancient Syrians sought to ward off such evils with human sacrifices. The Greeks, who called it Ares, and the Romans, to whom it was Mars, both regarded it as the god of war. To this day, the martial shield and spear remain the symbol for the red planet...
Some of Detroit's blacks and Polish Americans, rep resenting the city's largest minorities, are coming to gether, somewhat gingerly, to push for a ward system of elect ingcity council members, who are now elected at large...
...Since a ward system would give both Negro and Polish voters more representation, the two groups are engaged in clas sic political trading for the benefit of both. Though prejudice remains high, there is now even talk of a joint cultural fair in Detroit, with soul food and Polish sausages...
...been economic. At its peak in 1966, Apollo employed 400,000 people, from Long Island to Seattle. The technological impact has been less conspicuous. But in scarcely more than a decade, research has produced hundreds of what NASA calls "space technology transfers" that apply everywhere from factory to surgical ward...
...following stories/impressions are results of a project for volunteers to see what it is like to live on a ward. The first is an account of a chronic, the second of an admitting ward. The latter is one where patients typically are coming and leaving all the time. The former is a ward filled with people who have not been helped by the efforts of many different people; and yet they are by no means forgotten, and a fair number of them can and do leave the hospital...