Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started taking jobs at State, says Stamps, they were regarded as mere musclemen. "The hospital wanted strong black bodies, seasoned by hard manual labor, to handle patients who hadn't been taken out of seclusion for years." Now, with no official upgrading, Stamps and the other strong men assist in electroshock treatments, guard narcotics supplies, give injections and other medications, take an active part in group-therapy sessions-and, by the doctors' insistence, must always be available to the patients. "Society is going to have to recognize that it's at least as important to help...
...aberrations-the near-toadying to friends, the relentlessness toward enemies-there runs a thread of consistency. He has been the inveterate foe of powerful and protected interests that have overreached themselves. This crusade is much in evidence in Pearson's first novel. The Senator, written with an assist from Novelist Gerald Green (The Last Angry Man), to be published this month. Its hero-villain is a walking compendium of all the sins that Pearson sees committed in Congress. Rich enough to begin with (a construction magnate worth at least $150 million), the hero is a willing and corrupt tool...
...against the Larries, but it was one of the few times in his career that he failed. A 5-10 blond from the Boston area, Parrot was New England Sophomore of the Year in 1965. By tallying four points in his final regular season game (against Yale) and an assist in the first round of the ECAC Tournament, Parrot emerged as the third highest scorer in Harvard history behind Bob Cleary and Gene Kinasewich. After the hockey season, he played his way into the number four singles spot on the tennis team. In the crucial victory over Penn, which assured...
Even without the prompting of a cover story, each spring hundreds of students write us about on-campus job opportunities with TIME. Most want to be campus representatives to earn both money and experience selling Time Inc. publications at special student rates. They also assist in marketing surveys for our advertisers -polling their peers on subjects as varied as shirt styles and cosmetics, as well as attitudes toward business recruiters. Students who want to become campus representatives should write for application forms to the TIME College Bureau, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York...
While this is not a new problem, the Committee recommends that each department review its practices as they affect this relationship. Teaching responsibilities, committee assignments, research opportunities, space allocations, closer relations with senior colleagues, and measures to assist placement no doubt all affect the atmosphere of a department and its attractiveness to young scholars...