Word: chil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wicker had a revelation at the Chicago convention: "These were our children in the streets and the Chi cago police beat them up." The Gallup poll recorded that 56% of the people interviewed approved of the Chicago cops. What those people meant was: "Those were our chil dren who were doing the beating." They also meant that their view of themselves as a last moral bastion has become ever more frustrating. Lower-middle-class Americans read of millionaires who pay no taxes. The clergymen whom they value lead open-housing demonstrations. They dream of sending their children to college...
...burden, but almost everywhere lower-middle-class whites feel that they are being forced to pay the real price of in tegration while assorted social planners and liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...
...stillbirths. It left an equal number of children with incurable and for the most part uncorrectable defects, from blindness and total deafness to imbecility. Its ravages in the U.S. alone were more terrible than the worldwide effects of the more highly publicized thalidomide disaster, which left 8,000 chil dren deformed. Epidemiologists feared that the next round, predicted for 1970-71, would be equally savage...
Wednesday, February 12 SINGER PRESENTS THE BEAT OF THE BRASS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass tootle through the U.S., stopping in such places as Ellis Island, New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and the chil dren's zoo in Los Angeles. Repeat...
Pillsbury Co., a firm of flour power, has a message of love. To millions of housewives, it preaches that the way to express affection for husband and chil dren is to bake them a cake. Its ads pro claim that "Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Something from the Oven, and Pillsbury Says It Best." This somewhat sac -charine slogan helps to boost sales. In the fiscal year ending last May, they rose to a record $526 million, and prof its increased 7.4% to $13 million. This year the Minneapolis-based company anticipates an earnings gain of 10%, which...