Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First-Hand Study. To correct this imbalance, a band of determined medical men, supported by funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, has launched a counterattack on medical poverty in several severely depressed areas. The OEO has allocated $94 million to finance 51 neighborhood health centers, of which 33 are already operating and 18 are being organized. Unless it is caught in a budget squeeze, the OEO will start ten more centers early next year...
...returned to Boston, Gibson suggested that Tufts University, with an expanding program of social medicine, might sponsor a health-center program. Within four weeks, the hyperkinetic Geiger had Tufts' approval and an associate professorship, then obtained funds from the OEO. Says Geiger: "We have known for a long time about the relationships between poverty and health without fully facing up to them. The poor are likelier to be sick. The sick are likelier to be poor. Without intervention, the poor get sicker and the sick get poorer...
...anything but obvious to me that a "sincere concern for social justice" necessitates a vote for Hubert Humphrey, whose sincere concern for that war in Vietnam has seriously impaired the domestic programs for social justice in the United States. What ever happened to the Poverty Program, the OEO, and countless other programs promised to the poor and Black Americans by the Johnson-Humphrey Administration? The war is making a mockery of social justice and human rights here at home by eating up all the funds which could and should have been provided for the grave internal problems that face this...
...reacted with a vengeance. The legislature leaned on the state board of higher education, which pressured the university's chancellor, who in turn forced a crackdown by Law Dean Morse. Though he protested, Morse relayed the order that all faculty members must choose between the school or the OEO...
...professors in the OEO program have already resigned from the school and have filed suit in federal court to block the ruling. The third says he will quit after this year. Out-of-state faculty recruiting has been curtailed, and as the remaining outsiders move on, they are not likely to be replaced. Morse himself has not yet been sacked, but there are rumors that he may be. Laments Yaleman Michael Trister, a dropout: "The great experiment at the law school is almost dead...