Word: help
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orange Blazers. For the Voices -24 black ghetto youngsters from East Harlem-all this attention is astonishing. The present group got going a year and a half ago with help from urban development programs trying to encourage neighborhood kids to keep off the streets. It rehearses in an empty supermarket purchased by The Vincent Astor Foundation. Under such auspices, the vocal results might have been expected to be worthy, therapeutic, useful-anything but exciting entertainment...
...American kids." The average age of the girls is 19, the boys 21, and they run the gamut of honor-rollers, cheer leaders, glee-clubbers and yearbook editors. The cast has such a home-town flavor that Choreographer Miriam Nelson and others had to conduct travel clinics to help the kids adjust to life on the road. "Get eight hours of sleep a night," they were told. "Phone home at least once a week to prevent homesickness...
...industry that lost $200 million on passenger service in 1968, horror stories of unconscionable service and rachitic equipment are a valuable asset. They help trains to become "un-derpatronized"-and therefore eligible for cancellation under ICC rules. There were 1,400 intercity passenger trains in 1958; now there are only 488. Every road in the U.S. is out to emulate the half a dozen carriers, from the Boston and Maine to the Frisco, that have succeeded in eliminating passenger business entirely. President Louis W. Menk of Northern Pacific might have been speaking for the industry in November when he told...
...part of its effort to lift the economic status of blacks, the Nixon Administration has sponsored a controversial program to help them obtain more well-paid jobs in construction. Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and a coalition of legislative conservatives fought and lost a hypocrisy-laden battle in Congress to scuttle the scheme in its infancy...
...many U.S. businessmen, that much of the Japanese competition is unfair. They say that Japanese manufacturers earn high profits selling in a home market that is virtually closed to foreign competition, then use these profits to subsidize cut-price export sales. The Japanese exporters also get more government help. JETRO, a government-financed trade-promotion agency, conducts extensive surveys that the Germans say pinpoint markets vulnerable to Japanese salesmanship. The Japanese reply that the Germans have simply been complacent...