Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test human tolerance to supersonic airliners, which may disturb as many as 130 million Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset...
...idea for this program originated with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, 43, a onetime medicine reporter for the International News Service who decided that he could do more for his fellow men by becoming a doctor than by writing about doctors. While studying medicine at Western Reserve University in the mid-1950s, he read about medical centers for the poor that had long existed in Europe. Later he studied what he calls "social medicine" (the concept of illness as an environmental as well as a medical problem) at South Africa's only medical school primarily for blacks, at the University...
...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...
...Such a program actually saves money. Cut off from routine preventive medicine, poverty-ridden people tend to be extremely ill when they are finally compelled to go into a hospital. A sample of 54 Columbia Point families was found to have had a total of 200 hospital days in the year before the center opened. Two years later, because of better preventive care, this had dropped to 40 days-an 80% reduction. Hospitalization, at $50 to $100 a day in true costs, is the most expensive part of medical care. For these 54 families alone, the second-year saving...
Capote has also just written and directed a TV documentary on capital punishment, Death Row, U.S.A. This program was an ABC venture too, but the network has decided not to put it on the air. And that decision may well shatter the whole beautiful Capote-ABC collaboration, for hell hath no fury like a Truman scorned...