Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finding his confidence again on other fronts. As Democratic whip, Kennedy happily took over the majority leadership last week during a brief absence by Mike Mansfield. He skillfully managed to restore $3.9 million in committee to an education program for Eskimo and Indian children -and was scheduled to meet in New Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project...
They had prepared for two weeks for the visit, and when Golda entered the school's auditorium she was greeted by black children wearing paper hats topped by the Star of David. The proud principal presented her with a scrapbook, which included a report card from Goldie's seventh-grade class. The grades were all in the 90s, but the teacher complained that young Goldie was something of a chatterbox...
...Premier was about to leave the auditorium, the children began to sing-in Hebrew-Shalom Chaverim (Peace, Friends). Obviously moved, Mrs. Meir ignored her security guards and plunged into the audience, shaking children's hands and hugging many of them. On the return flight to New York, Golda recalled Milwaukee not so much for her life there, but for what it led to. "That was the city," she said, "where I made the most important decision of my life." That decision was to move to Palestine in 1921. Since then, the establishment of a safe haven for Jewry...
...anxiety," as they refer to it. But today, two-thirds of the men and half of the women among West Germany's 61 million people are under 40 and had little or nothing to do with the war. If many of them are "Hitler's children," born during his rule, the Führer would surely disown them. They are painfully aware of their country's Nazi past; two years ago, a public opinion poll showed that 60% of those between the ages of 16 and 29 would rather live in another country...
They threw stones at Nixon and spat at Rockefeller, but the huge crowds that turned out for the touring Apollo 11 astronauts in Latin America last week demonstrated unrestrained adoration. In Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, women and children crowded into the streets simply to touch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, or to tear off pieces of their clothing as souvenirs. "You are supermen," said an Argentine admirer in broken English as he shook Armstrong's outstretched hand. "No," answered Armstrong in Spanish, "we are common...