Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants have already been organized, as have "freedom schools" for the older children and an agency to process marchers' welfare checks...
There are many reasons-economic, social, educational-for the current activism of students. More than any prior generation, they are children of permissive parents, and the Spock marks are showing. Today's young are used to having their complaints acted on instantly. "They are the babies who were picked up," notes Harvard's David Riesman. They have less direction than previous generations, are challenged by their parents to think for themselves. For all the rather exaggerated talk of the generation gap, American student activists tend not so much to defy their parents as to emulate them. And their...
...toughest statements, warned that his army would invade Jordan if terrorists continue to use it as a base from which to raid Israel. Said Dayan: "The Jordan Valley could turn into a battlefield in which there will be no room for civilian life, for families, children, cattle or agriculture...
Scotland's XYY convicts tended to get into trouble earlier (around age 13) than the average (about 18). But among their siblings there was an unusually low incidence of criminality. And in the only case so far reported of an XYY with several children, the abnormality was not transmitted: an Oregon XYY has had six sons, but all have a normal XY pattern...
Captain Cleveland is aimed at children from three to ten, and the Private Clem and Mr. Mayor colloquies are designed to interest the kids in government and, by implication, good race relations. Clem's questions run from "Do you own the city?" to "Is the policeman my friend?" At one point, after Stokes explained that the police are responsible for protecting property, Clem noted: "That's why I can keep my bicycle in front of my house and no one takes it." Replied Stokes: "But don't you do that too much...