Word: children
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According to one survey, the five most popular children's shows in 1951 were Crusader Rabbit, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickok, Howdy Doody and Uncle Mistletoe. Last year's top five: Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bewitched, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and The Green Hornet. The shift is not only a reflection on the state of children's TV but on the industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television...
...millionth West African to be vaccinated against smallpox in the past twelve months. When the U.S. AID-financed program is completed in 31 years, it is expected that 110 million people in Ghana and 18 other African countries will have been vaccinated. In a parallel program, 5,000,000 children have already been inoculated against measles; eventually, 30 million will...
...infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from 5% of children in some West African areas to 40% in others...
...supervision of the dorms was so lax, police charged, that a number of nonstudents seeking kicks had moved right in. Following agent-drawn maps of where suspects lived, surprised raiders barged into one room and found, instead of their target, his sister, her husband and their two children...
...been pressing Congress to adopt a comprehensive student aid program like the Zaccharias proposal. Educational costs have been rising at an average rate of five per cent a year, so even middle-income families have been compelled to seek financial aid. Harvard estimates that a typical family with three children will ask for assistance at an income level of $16,000; New York's Board of Regents says that a family with two children needs a net salary of $9,000 to support a student who commutes to a public college. And as costs continue to rise, universities find...