Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program to treat the addicted mother as well as the child is conducted at Mabon House, an offshoot of Odyssey House, on Ward's Island in New York City's East River. Here, 23 parents and children (there are currently two fathers in residence) live in a therapeutic, drug-free community. Mothers work in group nurseries and learn about parenthood through weekly discussions. "I used to take a lot out on my daughter Jennifer," says Dianne Carleton, 21, of Fairfield, Conn. "I started taking 'speed' because I wanted to lose weight, and then went to heroin...
...people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough food stocks to ward off mass starvation. But having ample food on hand is only half the battle. There is also the mammoth task of distributing supplies to the needy in remote rural villages-a project in which New Delhi has been less successful. The drought, moreover, has brought in its train a host...
...anticlimactic end to what Perón had hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments...
...Palo Alto Programmer Hugh Jeffrey Ward learned, from customers of a computer firm in Oakland, code numbers that enabled him to give orders to the firm's computer. Ward claims that, on instructions from his superiors, he told the Oakland computer to print out a program for plotting complex aerospace data in graph form. His company presumably planned to market the program, which was valued at $12,000 or more, to the Oakland firm's own customers. He was caught through a telephone company tracer and received a suspended sentence...
...lunging toward her with a foot-long bolo that he had pulled from his sleeve. She and others on the presentation platform, in a park near the Manila International Airport, grappled with the assailant. Mrs. Marcos was slashed on her arms and hands when she tried to ward off the blows; some tendons were damaged, and the wounds required more than 75 stitches. Several other people were also injured. Although Mrs. Marcos was reported in "safe" condition at week's end after being flown by helicopter to a hospital, President Richard Nixon dispatched a surgeon from California to assist...