Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNGLE BOOK. This animated version of the children's classic may be a perverse introduction to Rudyard Kipling, but it is a nice way to remember the late Walt Disney; it is the last film he personally supervised...
...DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays...
...associated with above-average intellectual powers. Maybe so. But the latest medical research, presented last week in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the American Rheumatism Association, shows that at least some cases of gout are closely related to a devastating inherited disease. The malady occurs only in male children, and is marked by cerebral palsy, uncontrollable twitching of the hands, self-destructive biting of lips and fingers, and mental retardation...
...South Vietnamese sources, they are Red Chinese in origin.) The camera would pan a lovely pastoral tableau. Then the air-raid sirens would scream, and everyone would scramble for one-man, cement-lined foxholes. One sequence depicted a captured American airman. Inevitably, there were affecting shots of injured children and of surgeons working on the wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively: "How many bombs will it take to destroy the tens of thousands of people who move rivers with their hands?" Four peasant girls worked cheerfully at a waterway in clothes that seemed more for Sunday than...
...Palo Alto professionals-are generally enthusiastic about the school. Educators acquainted with its program are cautiously willing to concede that in some ways it represents a healthy experiment. Berkeley Psychologist Norma Haan thinks Pacific is "realistic about the problems that today's teen-agers and their parents face." Children who merge from such a free school tend to be behind in factual knowledge, she notes, but they catch up quickly because "they are better able to interpret what they read." They also get a lot of adolescent rebelliousness out of their system, seem ready for the kind of independent...