Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The Boy and the Blind Bird, produced in Russia, tells of a boy's attempts to restore the sight of his pet pelican...
...glad to see your Education article "Walkout in Florida [March 1]." Your publication is one of the few to break through the news blackout. I have just resigned my position as second-grade teacher in one of the newest schools in Escambia County. Children are stuffed into classrooms, sit in broken chairs, taught on the stage in the "cafetorium," have speech classes in a closet between a Coke machine and the teachers' mailboxes, eat a 15-minute lunch in silence. Our affluent society is cheating children. It is time to stop...
...first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment plans and vocational training...
Their average life span is 21 years shorter than their fellow citizens'. Their unemployment rate is nearly 40%, ten times the national average. Some 50,000 American Indian families live in miser able huts, shanties, tents, abandoned cars. Half of their children never finish high school. Their sickness, illiteracy and poverty rank among America's worst. Their sad estate last week moved President Johnson to declare in a message to Congress: "No enlightened nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can permit this shocking situation to continue...
...these days are getting more youthful all the time. Raised on TV and movies, a visually oriented younger generation finds something in the spectacle of the dance that turns on the mind's eye. Following a recent performance in Manhattan of John Butler's Ceremony, two flower children stopped the choreographer on the street. "You Butler?" said one. "Saw your ballet. You tell it like it is, man." Says Butler: "It was the best compliment I've ever been paid...