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...work of trying to help must go on, and, as Massachusetts welfare administrators point out, the new program is responding quickly to more and more abuse cases. But the case workers, drowning in individual woe, do not find much personal reassurance in statistics. Nor do they have much faith in the capability of most of the social means available to cure repetitive cruelty to children. As a group, child defenders seem to be afflicted, in fact, by what is, or used to be, a most un-American emotion, a tormenting sense of the ultimate futility of even their most constructive...
...might think that Action Line reporters who spend their days sifting through the dust heap of human woe become as cynical and hard-bitten as their colleagues on, say, the police beat or the obit desk. Not at all. "I take every letter personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler. "I can't go to lunch, I can't go home, I can't sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest...
...overtones, the Europeans have a point: unfettered competition can have a few bad repercussions. Example: the U.S. inspired stand-by fares. They functioned smoothly only as long as planes were not being filled by passengers with confirmed reservations. Now the standbys are left stranded in appalling situations. To their woe, a few foreign carriers, notably El Al, Iran Air, Air-India and British Airways, have tried to match low U.S. transatlantic fares and have ended up with thousands of irate standbys on their hands. Most foreign airlines have resisted the deep discounts, and they have far fewer problems, at least...
Rademaekers had a typical Southern California tale of woe. Assigned to TIME'S Los Angeles bureau last year, he immediately started house hunting. The experience, he says, was "much like wading gently into an acid bath-a surprising renewal of shock and agony at every turn." After a six-month search, he settled for a two-bedroom "cottage" in West Hollywood. The price: $120,000. No sooner had he moved in and started feeding the gaping koi in his fish basin than he faced the prospect of having his $3,700 property tax raised to well over...
only I speak their wordless woe...