Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to have plenty of money, and the occasional visitor to her home, which she_ kept surrounded by two fences, could catch a glimpse of what she spent it on-Chinese bric-a-brac, 18th century books, and antique card cases that she had persuaded her amenable husband to adopt as a hobby. But what of the "pictures" she once maintained she was after? No one ever saw more than two or three...
...husky sheet-metal worker of Old Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...
...apostle of peace and his country "the world's strongest military power." He had mended some fences, dispensed a good deal of largesse. Peking's continued silence about his journey suggested, moreover, that the Chinese Communists had decided this was the most face-saving manner to adopt while conforming to Khrushchev's major line of peaceful coexistence...
...evil geniuses of contemporary Europe" to be Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche. Communism was no better than Naziism, for "all executioners are of the same family." He refused religious and political absolutes. Justice, he said, "is both a concept and a warmth oi soul. Let us ensure that we adopt it in its human aspect without transforming it into the terrible abstract passion which has mutilated so many...
...transportation eggs into one basket - the development of facilities for the private automobile to the virtual exclusion of every other form of transportation." The answer to the problem, most experts agree, is neither to outlaw the auto mobile in cities, nor abandon the commuter to his fate, nor adopt such oft-suggested schemes as the monorail or the far-fetched "pneumatic tube for people." What the nation's big cities need, if they are not to become monstrous masses of immovable autos, is better, more efficient public transportation. Traffic experts want to see the train...