Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, D.C., offers candid sex education, at least partly to fight down the high rate (1,100 cases a year) of unwed pregnancy among high school girls; just across the Potomac in Virginia, state law prohibits any public school sex instruction. Even among communities that think sex is a fit classroom subject, there is no unanimity of approach; some teach blunt physiology, with pictures; some tiptoe around the topic; some scare kids and even lie to them; a few regard sex as primarily a moral issue...
...husbands." When one catty correspondent asked the kitten: "Do you feel it necessary to become a mother to be really fulfilled?" Brigitte, whose son is 5, shot back: "I think one should try everything. Have you?" The next woman should have known better, but she snipped: "How does that fit in with your idea of love without marriage?" B.B. smiled: "Did you try it since yesterday?" Yes, said the reporter, "but what do I do now?" Well, advised La Bardot: "Keep trying. Keep trying...
...Estate. When the child became a man, he was fit to be nothing but a beggar. So Ali, with the help of his neighbors, made a little platform on wheels, rolled himself down to the marketplace, and sat there miserably day after day, holding a tin cup. The villagers both pitied and feared this monstrosity of their own making, and continued to maintain his misery as a sort of public convenience...
Another variation on the theme is a stretch suit (Ernest Engel: $130) that features a convertible collar and bell-bottom pants that fit-over the boot (an inner sleeve runs inside the boot to keep out the snow). Even knickers, once available only in bulky corduroy and baggy wool, now come in stretch-fabric that hugs the hips and thighs tighter-and rather more attractively -than a girdle...
...create flexibility in time as well as space, class periods are broken into 20-minute units that can be combined to fit instructional needs. The end of a period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers...