Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of "A Wesley an Education." This was a student-requested innovation. The only student to speak at any length was a dark, angular boy in a plaid lumberjack shirt. He identified himself as a political radical and film maker, quoting a Jean-Luc Godard epigram: "We are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola...
...world in 16-mm. segments. I drive from place to place in my old Ford station wagon and attempt to capture the movements of people. This is the Coca-Cola of my life. But as I work I can feel large round eyes watching my every move. Hungry children have large round eyes, and there are lots of hungry children. One person dies every eight seconds from malnutrition, and many of these people are children. And so in a very real sense, these little lives which are never lived are manure for my own life. They die, and I worry...
Robert Keeshan, L.H.D., TV's "Captain Kangaroo." He has directed his abundant imagination to the education of children throughout the land...
...diseases that have crippled or slaughtered children through the ages are yielding to preventive vaccines - first smallpox, then diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, and most recently, measles. Last week the U.S. Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn infants from death or dis abling malformations in the womb. It is a vaccine to protect against German measles, folk-named "three-day measles" and technically rubella. The first ship ments were on their way to doctors with in hours of the licensing announcement...
...catch it from them, like the common cold, through nose and mouth. It builds up to epidemic pro portions every five to seven years. The last U.S. epidemic, in 1964, caused 15,000 to 20,000 spontaneous abortions and stillbirths. It left an equal number of children with incurable and for the most part uncorrectable defects, from blindness and total deafness to imbecility. Its ravages in the U.S. alone were more terrible than the worldwide effects of the more highly publicized thalidomide disaster, which left 8,000 chil dren deformed. Epidemiologists feared that the next round, predicted...