Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until now, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has invested only limited funds and manpower to ease the tribe's plight. Little in the way of imaginative social work has been attempted. Putting shingled rooftops over each Havasupai's head is a questionable response to his needs, and even this will be done only gradually. According to Government plans, five houses will be lowered into the canyon each year, which means that the project will not be completed until...
...retire. The Church in Latin America is changing. While Rome still prohibits birth control, thereby encouraging the fecundity that is one of the continent's biggest obstacles to economic progress, many young priests quietly counsel contraception. In Chile, priests have increasingly drifted into poor neighborhoods to live and work. In Ecuador, they lead a movement to bring church property under land reform. In Bolivia, they have suggested that workers be granted a voice in their firms and a share in the profits. In Colombia, a priest was killed leading an anti-government guerrilla band. The growing middle class...
...said of the nations he had covered. "Blame must be equally accepted throughout the Western Hemisphere. We can't cover it up. You have no idea how much we are telling these people what to do and how to do it. But there are also forces at work that do not want to see us closer together. It is very important that there be understanding that these forces do exist and that all is not well in the hemisphere...
...American battalion at Dak To. As support troops, the U.S. engineers and artillerymen were counting on the South Vietnamese to provide the security force for their base. But Lien refused. As a result, the Americans had to do double duty guarding their own perimeter, leaving the gun crews and work teams overworked and exhausted...
...tourists through parts of the Executive Mansion ordinarily closed to the public: the Lincoln Bedroom, where, as she tells her charges, Lincoln never slept; the diplomatic reception room where Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fireside chats by "the only fireplace in the White House that doesn't work," even the secret staircase that she had once used to escape a party. "I just walked out. It was late anyhow." When reporters came to cover one of her supertours last week, Julie offered comment on her approaching 21st birthday. "The biggest thing about it," said she, "is being able...