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...Dickensian world of tiny flower girls freezing on wintry corners at midnight and brutalized orphans refused a second helping of porridge came startlingly alive last week in London. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children published a book entitled This Is Your Child, whose 200-odd pages are filled with stories and photographs of starved, burned and appallingly neglected children. One father heated leather thongs in a fire and then lashed his child until the skin lifted from its back. A mother kept her illegitimate son in a chicken coop until he was seven years old. "These...
...Scottsdale, near Phoenix, Ariz., one day last week, a trailer-towing car tooled into the Oasis Mobile Home Park. The driver and his wife gazed appreciatively at the neat flower beds and the swimming pool, the recreation hall and the nine-hole putting green, the croquet court and the three shuffleboard courts. The weekly schedule of activities, posted by the "sunshine girl" or social director, revealed plans for potluck dinner, pinochle games, bridge night, dancing, and classes in ceramics and art. The well-fitted trailers-preferably called mobile homes-were leashed to water lines and TV lines, phone lines...
...time, considering he stopped to fetch a flower for King Oberon...
...cull the army of possible candidates (of which he is one), instead nominated the Republicans' "best campaigner": Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner, "because of his utter inefficiency, his barren planning, his total lack of leadership, and the long and sorrowful list of scandals that he has permitted to flower during the seven years he has hibernated at City Hall...
...they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...