Word: warded
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...speech aroused a good deal of speculation about where and how Johnson had latched on to the phrase "the Great Society." While there was apparently no single source (just before he mentioned it at Ann Arbor last May, he had been talking with Writers John Steinbeck and Barbara Ward, among many others), two possible inspirations are particularly intriguing. One is a 1927 book by Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey, in which he discussed the "search for the Great Community" in terms of liberating individual potentialities; the other is a 1921 book by British Fabian Socialist Graham Wallas entitled The Great Society...
Needs of the Elderly. With its current president, Iowa's Dr. Donovan F. Ward, and President-elect Appel as its chief spokesmen, the A.M.A. will continue to oppose, with one voice, President Johnson's plan to finance medical care for the aged under social security. Knowing that the medicare fight will come to a climax in the next Congress, the A.M.A. decided to hold a 50-state war council next week in Chicago and to appropriate a multimillion dollar campaign fund...
Smiles and Spitballs. Grandson of an Irish immigrant, son of a barkeeper-politician, Joe Kennedy grew up in the rough world of Boston ward politics and wanted out. Though most Roman Catholic boys went to church schools, Kennedy's parents were wealthy and ambitious enough to send him to Harvard. There he mingled with Yankee plutocrats among the alumni, kept them supplied with choice tickets to football games. With his flashing smile and disarming frankness, Joe got along with most anyone. On a summer cruise to Europe, he spotted Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson in the ship...
...Turning to leave the rally, Garcia noticed a commotion beyond the glare of floodlights and heard shouts: "She's dying! She's dead!" Wedging his way through a crowd of about 40 Negroes, Garcia found an East Indian girl of about 18 on her knees, trying to ward off the crowd of anti-Jagan-ites who had partly torn off her clothes and were showering her with kicks and blows...
...told a convention of nurses at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, "have seen the patient who is slowly dying of a chronic, debilitating illness and has been placed in the room farthest from the center of the ward. The doctors drop in briefly during rounds, glance at his chart, and leave almost immediately. The general attitude of the ward is: There's really nothing we can do for him-after all, he's dying anyway.' " This attitude is as appalling to many physicians as it is to just about all ministers of religion. But what...