Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to wear black arm bands to school as a protest against the war in Viet Nam. Among the five junior-and senior-high teen-agers who had been temporarily suspended from their schools for making that quiet demonstration in December 1965 were Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, children of a Methodist minister who works for the pacifist American Friends Service Committee. Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared that the issue was not a frivolous one, such as a boy's hair style or the length of a girl's skirt. By preventing the children...
...have the state's tenant-eviction statute declared unconstitutional because the law makes it all but impossible for the evicted persons to defend themselves in court. Volunteer lawyers are also challenging in a federal court state welfare laws that provide payments for a parent's first three children but none for any born thereafter...
...that its continuation would involve greater risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the woman or of any existing children of her family...
...military courses (accounting, physical education), the critics also tend to forget that universities themselves approve the ROTC instructors, many of whom are rising young officers who take graduate courses on the side. At Columbia, for example, one ROTC officer currently has 90 hours' credit in teaching ghetto children. The critics do have one important point: the intellectual respectability of ROTC courses varies wildly from school to school, partly because the quality of the teachers and the credit hours vary just as wildly...
Divorced. By Jill St. John, 28, an eternal starlet (Tony Rome) with more talent for marrying (three times) than acting: Jack Jones, 31, television and nightclub singer; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...