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Once the volunteer has been around for a while, he can cite numerous programs going on within the hospital; reading classes for retarded patients, art therapies, group therapies; medications, dances, etc., etc., etc. But it is not these things that are the most impressive to him. He has felt the frustration and occasional pangs of hopelessness in working with someone who clings tenaciously to his problems. He can understand the tremendous demands placed on attendants and doctors alike, the energy which is required to understand and help a patient. To see a staff working in the fact of these odds...
...standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary. However, there is a difference between a nation's rational and emotional needs. Britain's monarchy provides a link to the country's past and a unifying national symbol in the present. Modern monarchists cite the romantic?and atavistic?notion that the sovereign is a vital link between Britain and the Commonwealth at a time when other ties among the nations are falling away. Today, Britain is a small nation condemned to dwell amid the physical and remembered monuments of a much greater past. The monarchy makes that...
...Happiness Campaign," TWA divided its employees into groups according to their job categories and the size of the cities in which they are based. The groups compete against each other to see which can best please the public. The judges are the customers; they mark ballots to cite those who give them the snappiest service. Employees in winning groups receive $100 each and a chance to draw for bigger prizes ranging up to a sports car or $2,700 in cash...
...bring some order out of the urban sprawl. The research institutes, or think tanks, recruit bold generalists or "futurists" to plot scenarios of the problems ahead. Modern society has produced all sorts of middleman and service jobs-public relations men, travel agents, pollsters and political-campaign experts, to cite a few. At another level federally financed antipoverty work has become a bona fide career for many people. And that, in turn, has helped to create specialists in the art of securing federal funds out of the confusing welter of available programs...
...runs a daily box score of such attacks and provides details of the worst of them in adjoining stories that identify the race of the assailants. Most of them are Negroes. The paper's critics contend that the crusade overplays black crime and feeds racial hatreds. The protesters cite front-page stories that appeared in the News for six days about a policeman's son fatally stabbed by a Negro; only one inside story appeared when a black man was killed defending his wife against a gang of white youths bent on rape...