Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveal the apparatus within. One sex educator in Detroit demonstrates the stretching of the uterus with a rubber ball inside a sock, and the growth of the human embryo by soaking beans in water until they swell and sprout. Teachers get much help from movies in schools that can afford them. From the fairly tame animal films on the kindergarten level, they range to Human Reproduction, featuring body models with all organs clearly labeled; Phoebe, the story of a lovely girl and what happens to her when she becomes pregnant; Fertility and Birth, a cartoon depicting sexual intercourse and subsequent...
...England Chapter of the Family Camping Association, only 462 came with tents or tent trailers; the rest arrived in motorized cabins on wheels. "It's not the camping, it's the traveling," explained Connecticut's Earl Ferrin, father of three. "We couldn't afford it using motels." Ferrin, who had not camped a day in his life until last year, when he converted a 60-passenger school bus, is planning to pack his family along to Montreal's Expo 67 this summer...
...consider it a necessary evil." Besides, he likes his work too much-and says he needs the money. "I guess I've made higher salaries than anyone else in the business," he says, "and I have not, to my knowledge, been extravagant. Yet I can't afford a jet plane like some of these guys...
Only a few decades ago, when most sports were the province of the rich, baseball-the one game any kid could play on a sandlot-was the National Pastime. Today, in an affluent democracy, when just about everyone can afford the pastime of his choice, no single game, but sport itself has become the nation's favorite. It also has become an honorable profession, open to every class and every race. It has produced a new type of professional athlete-admired, socially acceptable and remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals...
...flying horse has acted more like an old grey mare, has therefore extended the deadline for the plan's vaunted goals to 1970. To get the investment he needs for development, he has quietly shifted his allegiance from Red China to Russia, which is far more able to afford North Korea's aid requirements. Along the way, his government is going deeper and deeper into hock to Russia; without Russian fuel, all North Korean jets would be grounded and a complete cutoff in aid would probably cripple the country. Kim has also made a bitter enemy of Peking...