Word: bleaknesses
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...forgotten patients and the startling statistics existing in mental hospitals throughout the nation. Recently, three actions have put the problem in sharper focus: a Harvard volunteer program, a state-wide report, and a national foundation grant, each in different ways, have shown encouraging details within a generally bleak outline...
...model housing developments like Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town break up bleak gridiron of East Side slums"? What, I would like to know, will break up the bleak gridiron of these developments? Lewis Mumford was certainly right when he said that if we go on rebuilding New York on such obsolete patterns, we should merely be exchanging slums for future super-slums...
...bleak November day in 1952, twelve men dressed in somber suits gathered in a waiting room in Coshocton, Ohio. They were members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, and they had just attended the funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election...
...week long a cold wind hurled grey clouds out of the Northwest and across the bleak Atomic Proving Grounds in Nevada. The Atomic Energy Commission, well aware of public concern about radioactive fallout (TIME, Feb. 28), kept on postponing the big blast. But at 5:45 one morning, it touched off a small...
...stone's throw from Hitler's grandiose, marble-pillared Luitpold Arena on the edge of Niirnberg lies bleak, barbed-wired Camp Valka. refuge for fugitives from the Iron Curtain countries. At the Luitpold, time was when Hitler offered Germans the hope of Lebensraum. Today the U.S. offers Camp Valka's people a new chance in life-in the U.S. But the chance is still discouragingly hard to grasp...