Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merits, the bill's carrot content would have won wholehearted support. Job-training programs would be greatly expanded, more day-care centers would be established so that working mothers would have a place to leave their children. Not least, welfare recipients would be allowed to keep some of the money they earn. Under present rules, most welfare agencies are required to deduct every penny earned from welfare payments, in effect imposing a confiscatory 100% tax that discourages any attempt at getting...
...illusions that the palliatives, such as garbage cleanups and street cleaning, will make a vast permanent difference, but he senses that they give residents hope and spirit. The slums, in turn, usually respond with electric excitement whenever he appears. Older men and women hang out of their windows, children clutch at his hand, and teen-agers-usually the troublemakers-tousle his hair, heckle him good-naturedly, challenge him to a ball game...
...while the lights flashed, balloons burst and everyone chanted the Hindu Hari Krishna (Hail Krishna). Soon everybody was kissing everybody. Nancy was radiant. "Everything's beautiful to the bride," she said. "All I want now is a home in the country where Artie and I can raise children. I'm sure he and I will love each other forever...
Defiance is also widespread in rural Bible belt areas of the Midwest. One sur vey, for example, indicates that more than half of the school districts in In diana observe periods of prayer and one-third continue Bible reading. When some parents of children in a Jennison, Mich., school objected to classroom prayer, the school board rejected their complaints. In the Southwest, one count shows that Bible readings were held in 79.9% of the Texas secondary schools, prayers were said in 89.5%. In the East, where 68% of the schools had Bible reading and prayer in 1962, most have abandoned...
...Anti-Defamation League find it too costly to support plaintiffs who wish to take individual teachers to court-and the impasse suits the Johnson Administration just fine. Next year's election poses enough problems for L.B.J. without sending federal lawyers after every school teacher who permits his children to pray...