Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October, according to a Harris poll released last week, Johnson's popularity rating stands an even 50%-50% with Michigan's Governor George Romney, who only last March led the President 54% to 46%. Johnson may well conclude, by more-silence-is-better reckoning, that Presidents, like children, should be seen but not heard...
...would refuse to go to Viet Nam if ordered, that Negro soldiers especially should refuse to fight there, that Lyndon Johnson was like Adolf Hitler and that Special Forces men?whom he was ordered to instruct? "are liars and thieves and killers of peasants and murderers of women and children." To teach the Green Berets how to treat skin diseases of Vietnamese peasants, Levy said, would "prostitute" his profession. Therefore he defied the order...
Lindbergh is still almost pathological about guarding his privacy, though age and a receding hairline have made him almost indistinguishable from other commuters in Darien, Conn., where he has lived in recent years. He has five grown children (three sons, two daughters). Occasionally he appears in Washington's Smithsonian Institution and gazes up at the Spirit of St. Louis, dangling there, fragile but painstakingly guarded against rust and oblivion. He is seldom recognized. Yet any associate or friend who talks to a reporter about him is deprived of the light of his countenance. Typically, he refused to have...
...federal antipoverty program's teen-age counterpart of the preschool Head Start program. Now two years old, it has taken 20,000 high school students whose grades failed to match their ability, sent them to 220 college campuses for summertime remedial work in an attempt to prepare more children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity's Sargent Shriver...
Perhaps because Gordon McLendon, 45, is a father (four children) and grandfather (two), he found it difficult to believe "that our American young people are preoccupied with thoughts of 'making out,' marijuana and birth-control pills." But when he listened carefully to the music that was played on his own 13 AM and FM radio stations, he believed-plenty. "There were songs," he said, "that glorify dope addiction, homosexuality, immorality in general. Some absolutely make permissible, if not encourage, fornication and all varieties of things that would have been called immoral 20 years...