Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter of a Baptist minister, she was raised by a widowed seamstress when the burden of nine children became too much for her father. After a teen-age marriage and divorce, she determined to seek a higher education. She worked her way through all-black Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., as a dishwasher and laundress, and financed her law studies at the University of Wisconsin with jobs as a library assistant and nurse's aide. In 1952 and 1953 she studied international law at London University...
...middle of a routine procedural debate, ordered a vote on the matter and went on to new business. "The U.N. could and should remain the best means of international cooperation that has ever been at mankind's disposal," she says. Then, as though speaking of one of her children, she adds: "But we have to nurse and cherish and cultivate...
...number of women who stripped completely -a common form of demonstrating contempt for authority in some parts of Africa. Most of the protesters, including the women, were seized and jailed after a scuffle. Left temporarily unattended in the confusion were 400 of the tribe's youngest children, as well as all of its precious cattle. "Two cows were taken by hyenas last night," said a Tangwena tribesman, "and they will probably get the rest tonight. That means we will have nothing left...
...entertainer's depressing story of debts and eviction, an unpleasant irony that was not lost on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south of France, have now moved into a lovely white villa on the coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. "This is the proof that one should never despair," said Josephine, adding that...
...straight middle-class American breadwinner, secure and affluent beyond the dreams of his grandparents or most of his contemporaries elsewhere in the world, Mr. Jones of Dylan's mocking lyric, finds himself in a world more surreal than a moonscape. He looks behind, and realizes that his children are not following. At a frightening distance, in their own arcane pastures of the mind, the young strip and ululate and make love to the accompaniment of manic cacophonies. Even in the Joneses' own backyard, thrusting up between the roses and the hollyhocks, a sharp eye may spot a weed growing?...