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...vaccinations against such menaces of the past as poliomyelitis. Nonetheless, there are signs of a reawakening to the measles danger. In Los Angeles, thousands of youngsters turned up for shots after school authorities threatened to bar them from classes without proof of inoculations. In New York, health officials used circus clowns to lure youngsters to vaccination centers. Such gimmickry has the full blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters-not only against measles but against five other avoidable diseases as well: polio, whooping...
...darkens their windows. "You learnt a good deal, Louisa," says Mrs. Gradgrind (Ursula Howells), "-ologies of every kind, -ologies, -ologies, from morning till night, -ologies of every description. But there is something your father missed out, or forgot." It takes Mr. Sleary (Harry Markham), the disreputable owner of a circus, and Sissy (Michelle Dibnah), the daughter of a clown, to explain the lessons of dreams and imagination. Hard Times is the story of Louisa's slow tutelage - against the backdrop of Victorian greed and despair...
...moveable fence in Milwaukee, which helped home-team hitters, and he put fireworks in the Cleveland Scoreboard to salute home-team home runs. He sent a midget to bat in St. Louis, and offered live lobsters as gate prizes to his fans. Critics said he turned baseball into a circus. Replied Veeck: Was there anything wrong with the circus...
...side note: Berkeley, an Andover graduate, took time off last year, and among other jobs he worked for the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. He must have felt at home with the show he put on yesterday...
...noncombative way," answers the President. A little later, Carter recalls that the musicians' union is picketing Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, to which he had planned to take Amy that night. The President says to Powell: "I'm going to tell the labor leaders how unhappy I am that they are keeping me from taking my daughter to the circus...