Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's first statewide walkout of public schoolteachers. As nearly half of Florida's 58,000 teachers stayed away from their classrooms, about one-third of the state's 1,800 schools were closed and 500,000 children went untaught. The strike culminated an angry year-long dispute over school finances between flamboyant Governor Claude Kirk and militant members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The root of the trouble goes back to Kirk's 1966 election campaign, in which he promised to produce something of a political miracle...
Tempers grew short. The F.E.A., Kirk charged, was "attacking our state, our children, our parents." The Governor, countered F.E.A. Executive Secretary Phil Constans, is "a charlatan." At a rally of 30,000 teachers in Orlando last August, Constans urged them to submit their resignations, which F.E.A. leaders could use if Kirk and legislators did not meet their demands, including smaller classes, more modern textbooks as well as pay hikes...
...Academy Award nominations are usually like a children's party: hardly anyone goes home without a gift. This year, favors were distributed liberally to some older participants: Katharine Hepburn (best actress) for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Dame Edith Evans (best actress) for The Whisperers. Younger guests were also smiled upon: Hollywood Newcomers Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross for best actor and supporting actress (The Graduate...
...illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than 1,000,000 Jewish children who perished during the holocaust-it was a way station to Auschwitz's crematoria...
...basic blame, says Morse, belongs to "patriotic" organizations, which warned against the admission of "undesirable foreigners" to the U.S.; it belongs to Congress, which refused to relax immigration laws even to save doomed children, and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who feared that "the Jewish issue was a political liability." Above all, Morse blames the State Department, which refused for more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European...