Word: dren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
Peggy went to integrated public schools in Washington, though many of her father's colleagues live either in the white suburbs or else send their chil dren to private schools. Rusk's older son, David, 26, is a militant civil rights activist and staff member of the Urban League in Washington who has known his new brother-in-law for three years and calls him "a very fine fellow." (A second son, Richard, 21, attends Cornell University.) But there was a shortage of Rusks at the wedding. Dean Rusk's brother Parks, an Atlanta-Miami public relations...
Most Morning Star colonists avoid acid. "I'd rather have beautiful chil- dren...
...civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine-one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died before Rusk's eyes...
...school with whites. Though that is a marked improvement over last year's 6% figure, the rates remain appallingly low in sev eral Deep South states. A dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in school integration, only one of every 28 Negro chil dren attends classes with whites in Louisiana, one of 31 in Mississippi, one of 42 in Alabama...