Trouble: “Federal funds to be spent this year on lead-lined trucks to house the administration during nuclear attack: $58,000,000.” Real trouble: “Amount the President proposes to spend on this program next year: $85,000,000” (Harper’s “Index,” August 1990).
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Take two aspirin and call me when you’re almost dead. Laurie Abraham writes in the Chicago Reporter (July/August 1990), “Cora Jackson, who lived poor, died with most all the sophisticated medical care money could buy. As the cumulative effects of a stroke, diabetes and congestive heart failure consumed her body, medical technology did its best to stave off her death. But the irony is that…she spent most of her earlier years struggling to get decent and dignified care…. For about a third of the $150,000 that went to Mrs. Jackson in her last year of life, Mount Sinai could have started a diabetic foot clinic to aggressively prevent amputations in severe diabetics like her. The hospital applied for a $54,000 foundation grant for that purpose in 1984 but was rejected.”
Nostalgia for the Loop. “Yuppies, DINKs [double income, no kids], empty nesters, divorcees, singles” are the people developer Stanley Lieberman expects to live in the 88 condos and 63 town houses planned for northwest suburban Buffalo Grove’s new downtown. Many of them, he tells Planning (July 1990), are “people who would like to live in the city but who have to work in the suburbs.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
