Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were the dugouts, rickety frame sheds resembling the busstop shelters put along rural roads for school children. When it was in use, the park was probably the very worst in organized baseball. But now it seemed even sadder, like a washed-up whore...
...horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their resistance to religious motives. A devout Episcopal couple from Florida, who prefer anonymity, consider TV "contaminating." None of their five children (now aged 13 to 25) was allowed to watch. What about them now? Their oldest son, now a high school teacher in California, admits to smoking pot and is raising his two-year-old son on the laissez-faire principles of Scottish Educator A. S. Neill...
...objectionable, but the quality of everyday programming. "What I've seen," says Mrs. Paul Scott, 27, of suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young children, feels the same way. Eighteen months ago, she "just unplugged the damn thing and put it into the closet." She is particularly happy, she says, to be free of the bombardment of all those commercials...
...Japanese, and with tapes in 26 different colors. Most models resemble a hand gun, and all have a circular dial with letters and numbers. The user dials his choice, then squeezes the trigger. Out ticks the adhesive tape, ready for use on hundreds of items, from mailboxes to children's toys to underground cables...
Whitten said that BROTHER also has arranged the sending of $5000 to Terre des Hommes, a Swiss-based humanitarian organization which finances the flying of starving Biafran children to other African countries...