Word: garrett
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...lasted only 15 minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...
Observed by the cameras in a high school TV workshop, the little girl leafed through picture books, ran, jumped, laughed and turned somersaults. "Boy!" exclaimed Mrs. Garrett. "She's just what the doctor ordered...
...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...find too much to say about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
...five--Marland P. Billings '23, professor of Geology, Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Kenneth J. Arrow, who will join the Faculty as professor of Economics next fall--were among 50 new members elected to the Academy on Saturday. They will be members for life...