Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundation for blind children in Los Angeles, she and her traveling companion, Daughter Julie Eisenhower, were brought to tears by scenes the children put on from The Sound of Music. "That's the real story here today," Pat said. "These children are really learning to enjoy life...
...players in the world who are ranked as international grandmasters, the equivalent of karate's black belt. Every town from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays and quarterback sneaks. Professionals of the caliber of Petrosian and Spassky, both of whom are paid handsomely as the coaches...
Some might disagree. Delacorte's Alice in Wonderland statue, built as a tribute to his late wife in 1959, is so popular a children's roosting spot in Central Park that it requires some $10,000 per year for maintenance. The Delacorte Theater, completed with the aid of $150,000 from the philanthropist, is the site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes...
Delacorte, a self-made millionaire, has six children and 20 grandchildren who are well-provided for, he says, in his wife's will; he himself believes that "leaving money to a child hurts more than it helps." The controversy over his fountain notwithstanding, he plans to continue his donations to the city he loves. "I was born and raised in New York," he says, "made my money in New York, and now I want to give my money back to New York...
...earlier. In normal palms, the heart and head lines are separate and distinct, and neither extends clear across the palm. In many victims of mongolism and of prenatal rubella, however, they are replaced by a single "simian crease," like that on a monkey's palm. At the Children's Medical Research Foundation in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Margaret A. Menser and S. G. Purvis-Smith found another abnormality. In this, an extended head line becomes a simianlike crease, slanting across the palm but leaving a separate heart line. Somewhat chauvinistically, they called it the "Sydney line," although other diagnosticians...