Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably not since the Children's Crusade has there been such a combination of revolutionary ardor and disorder. There were Trotskyites with their red flags, anarchists with their black ones, pro-Chinese with Maoist banners. Joining the French student groups were Cuban militants in black berets, El Fatah Arab nationalists, Spanish and Portuguese revolutionaries, Dutch Proves, sympathetic British Leftist students-even an unlikely Arab-Jewish committee of the committed...
...even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when the times dictated. In 1944, with the population decimated by war, Stalin wanted to boost the birth rate and decreed that men would no longer be obliged either to admit paternity or provide any financial support for children born out of wedlock...
...changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that is vital...
...Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children...
...private schools-including religious schools. Members of the board of education for both Rensselaer and Columbia counties argued that such programs violate the First Amendment ban on "establishment of religion." Last week the court upheld the state. New York's law, it said, was an aid to children, not religion...