Word: halloween
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...feeling that the republic is being tested more than at any other time since the Civil War. In a sense, the whole country is turning into a civics class to re-examine the American situation. Many teachers worry about the impact of Watergate on their pupils. At a Halloween party in a New York City Catholic school, the prize for the scariest costume went to an eleven-year-old girl wearing a Nixon mask. Helen Wise, president of the National Education Association, wrote the President: "Teachers are asking me how they can fulfill their responsibilities of teaching young people...
Despite the record harvest, threats of food shortages keep popping up like hobgoblins at Halloween. New scarcities are now expected in such key items as canned goods and dairy products; even turkey will be in short supply for the holidays. More frustrating, because of snarls on overloaded U.S. railroads, the bumper yields will be tortuously slow in reaching markets, further tightening supplies and kicking up retail food prices, which have inflated 21.5% in the past year. Concedes Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "It's probable that we will see some larger food prices...
...Registrar also said that drivers should slow down on Halloween to protect children who may be darting about in dark costumes during dusk or early darkness, especially in residential areas...
Cambridge was filled with more than its ordinary number of goblins, witches, and evil spirits last night. Pumpkins are not the only ones who are afraid of Halloween...
...Harvard-Epworth continues with Stromboli, and Currier House's Fellini series offers La Strada [The Road, 1956), the table of a half-wit peasant girl (Giulietta Masina) sold into slavery and gradually driven mad, with Anthony Quinn's and Richard Basehart's finest performances, and Fellini Satyricon as a Halloween treat (or trick...