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Suicide Attempts. Miracle or no, Neurotics Anonymous, a nonprofit self-help program for the emotionally disturbed, can justly claim a modest success. It was founded six years ago by Grover Boydston, a Florida psychologist who, like all members, is generally known by first name only. N.A. now has 5,000 members in 250 chapters from Hollywood to Haifa. As with nearly everything else about N.A., the figures must be taken on faith. Noses are casually counted, and any member can open a new chapter of the group any time he cares...
...colleges all over the U.S. As a practical ideologue of black revolution and human rights, he has already been outstripped by events. The much harried Black Panthers, often the victims of their own inflammatory language, are trying to carry out a program of education, self-defense and a self-help that in some ways resembles Malcolm X's final program. Their thought, however, is tinged with a Marxian notion of solidarity, not merely of race but of economic oppression...
...Stevens. in his speech before the caucus, talked about ending the Vietnam War soon, increasing citizen participation in our political system, and establishing domestic self-help programs. In 1968 Stevens, as an Independent, got more votes than the Republican candidate who opposed Philbin. Stevens enjoyed the support of many college volunteers last year in his Congressional campaign...
...next day the Vice President stressed self-help to Afghanistan's Premier Nur Ahmed Etemadi, whose country has received $1 billion in economic aid from neighboring Russia, $410 million from the U.S. As the Vice President's Cadillac entered Kabul, the streets were lined with solemn Afghans, many looking like Genghis Khan's horsemen. Agnew's most rousing reception, however, came from about 800 college students, who threw mud at his car and waved banners reading "Stop killing people in Viet Nam." When Etemadi apologized, Agnew confided to his host: "I'm used to this...
...bakery and a cut-rat; supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited with starting dozens of job-training centers across the country. The Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Operation Breadbasket," on Chicago's South Side, is nationally famous for its community action...