Word: overcrowdedness
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One Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among...
When overcrowded, short-of-help U.S. mental hospitals first appealed to Selective Service for help, they hoped for a few emergency workers to tide them over the crisis. What they got, from the "conchies," was a sustained, conscientious effort that has lifted mental-hospital standards throughout the country.
Forts & Gyms. With his wife comfortably settled in "Fayerweather Arms," John McGreevy is luckier than most of the 40,000-odd G.I.s who have taken their wives with them to college. Dartmouth plans to build a village of 50 prefabricated houses to hold the 100 new couples expected next March...
Hugh Dalton, Labor's shy new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had quite an audience. Present in the House of Commons were three distinguished predecessors: Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Viscount Simon. Ex-cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the...
A famed child-psychologist and long time professor at the University of Iowa, in 1938, tweedy, babyfaced, middle-aged George Dinsmore Stoddard jolted his colleagues by demonstrating that I.Q.s (supposedly determined at birth) could be altered by environment. The methods: 1) planting some 300 children of feeble-minded parents and...