Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery for a while, at an average $2 an hour, sorting tickets, keeping records, guarding the clock to see that nobody tampers with...
What everybody forgot was the helpfulness of adult admen, who did their bit for both sides, livened up the campaign by plastering Sweden with ads slickly arguing that a shorter week would mean "more homework and shorter holidays." Result: some 328,000 student voters (90% of the "electorate") voted for a six-day week by nearly three to one. This week Swedish officials are pondering their own problem in democracy: how to go ahead and introduce the five-day week without disillusioning the kids...
...death came hard on the heels of warnings from the A.M.A. and the health commissioners of major cities that the filmy bags used to cover newly dry-cleaned garments should be kept away from children. So far, across the U.S. more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static...
...Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head up in the clouds with the academic people") and is the chairman of the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education ("If all of us in industry learned better the world in which we live, we'd all be better individuals"). He had a hand in the Rockefeller brothers' special studies of national security problems and foreign economic policy, is the first chairman of the Republican Party...
Compulsion. Despite some debatable philosophy and psychiatry, Meyer Levin's casebook on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder makes taut, adult melodrama...