Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well aware that with Congress considering a $6 billion budget cut, such ambitious demands are not likely to be met. He and his lieutenants would probably be happy to settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision to create 450,000 jobs for the unemployed in the coming year, and funding of President Johnson's three-year program to employ 500,000 of the jobless in private industry. "If there is no response," Abernathy said last week, "we shall not have...
taunt us in the night, Men kill other men at war. Hungry children lying on the floor...
...full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with God's. One, the Nicolites, believing themselves blessed with the innocence of Paradise, refused to wear clothes; many lived in small, ungoverned communes, preaching love and sharing their goods and wives. These medieval children of love helped implant the seeds of Christianity's Protestant Reformation and set an example for today's hippie communes (not that these are much given to the study of history, medieval or otherwise...
...creatures in their cages should assume a super-alpha status-in other words, a rank above that of the topmost animal. If he fails to assert such authority, the zookeeper risks finding the animals as impudent, mischievous and eager to take advantage of any sign of weakness as school children with an unsure and inexperienced teacher. And the animals' pranks, Hediger adds dryly, can produce far more painful consequences...
...INVESTMENTS: Julia Montgomery Walsh, 45, of Washington, D.C., spends part of her day as a senior partner at the investment firm of Ferris & Co., spends the rest in "yours, mine and ours" domesticity with four sons from her first marriage, seven more children who arrived with her second husband, Real Estate Broker Thomas B. Walsh, and a three-year-old son since born to them. Her salary is $200,000 a year...