Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James) Lindsay Almond Jr. recognizes that the Old Dominion's posture of "massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...
...nearby Washington, D.C., had applied for a boy from Maryland's Montgomery County Social Service League. Then last week the Damerons themselves got a surprise. The agency's answer was no. Reason: Dori, now 2½, has an exceptionally high IQ-147 ("very superior"); to bring a child of average mentality into the family, said the league, would cause hardship for Dori as well as for the baby, whose IQ might be lower...
Charles Dameron protested. Replied the league's executive secretary, Elizabeth O'Malley: "Dori is a very bright child who is going to make great demands on the Damerons in every way, financially and otherwise. It would not be fair to deprive her. We wouldn't put a below-average child in the same home, and if we had another very bright child, we would place it in a home we considered had superior advantages...
...Dameron, who describes himself as "a thrifty man," the league's reasoning seemed to hold that an exceptional child could get proper emotional and intellectual nourishment only from moneyed, more highly educated parents. (Dameron has acquired a year and a half of college credits going to school part-time.) Other local adoption agencies disputed Social Worker O'Malley's financial point (Dori would obviously win a full scholarship), but they agreed that there are always problems arising from differences in the intelligence of children in the same family. Retorted Dameron: "If a couple had a very bright...
...That, Pop? In Chicago, Psychologist Stanley Mitchell, telling parents that they could eliminate juvenile delinquency by whispering good thoughts into their youngsters' ears as they slept, said: "The kids wouldn't hear, but their subconscious minds would, and this would build a solid relationship between parents and child...