Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...football teams, all coached by volunteers, while other activities range through drama, dance and charm classes, bowling, dog-training classes, "Slim 'n' Trim" groups, roller skating, photography, woodcraft, and lessons in how to ice a cake. Says Joy Hudson, 35, mother of three children: "There is a problem of getting too busy. Some weeks my husband is home only two nights a week. My little boy often says, 'Anybody going to be home tonight?' " Suburbia, echoed Exurbanite Adlai Stevenson (Libertyville, Ill.) recently, is producing "a strange half-life of divided families and Sunday fathers...
Dozens of British do-good organizations dabble at improving race relations, and individuals give their time to help run community centers and mixed black-and-white clubs. "But a lot of them make you feel as though you were receiving charity or as though you personally were a social problem," complained a Nigerian girl. Just before Parliament rose, Labor's Sir Leslie Plummer introduced a bill making it an offense to discriminate against colored people...
...medical care is generally rated as good as any in the world and often proclaimed as the best. It will not hold this rating, the experts warn, if the doctor-patient and G.P.-family ratios fall farther. Says Dr. Darley: "The big problem is how to preserve a personalized type of medical care in the face of all the forces that tend to depersonalize it." One plan for which he has high hopes is to develop the practice of "family medicine" itself into a specialty. Pilot programs to do this are beginning, with A.M.A. backing, at Johns Hopkins, Indiana, Kansas...
...Crisis. None of the panaceas proposed by self-appointed healers of the medical profession offer much hope. Mechanization and automation with punch cards and computer diagnoses might help a physician to treat more patients, but not the way they want to be treated. Crash programs for research intensify the problem. Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, a former dean (Cornell) and now director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, points out that proposals to appropriate billions for research may dry up the supply of physicians to apply the research findings-because the men siphoned off into "pure" laboratory work would...
Barnstorming. In Foyil, Okla., after trying to decide what to do with the half of his barn that had survived a storm, Farmer Burt Quigley slept on the problem, woke up to find the remaining portion had been blown down by a second storm...