Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Gwynne and Abby Dalton star as Marshall and Augusta Anderson, parents of eight children, in turn-of-the-century New York City. This is a sneak preview of a comedy series that NBC may include in its 1970-71 season...
...Thank you for paying tribute to the mothers of America through Ethel Kennedy [April 25]. She is not alone in her struggle to bring up children to lead fruitful lives. As a teacher of young children, I am daily inspired by those mothers who are dedicated to the task of teaching moral and social values to the future citizens of our country. They may not be as spectacular as Ethel, but their number is legion. All is not yet lost in this country...
...crusty, wealthy Stour Valley rector, who threatened to cut her out of his will if she married the impecunious painter. Prudently, Constable and Maria waited seven years. Finally, in 1816 his father died, leaving him with enough of an inheritance at 40 to marry and support a wife and children (they had seven). Virtually all Constable's greatest paintings were done after his marriage...
...dachas in the neighboring countryside or to hastily winterized summer camps for a cheap weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites splash in the open-air Moskva swimming pool built on the site of a prerevolutionary cathedral...
...white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start playing improvisational rhyming games shortly after they learn to talk...