Word: latchkeys
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...girl, left alone at home, panics when her Great Dane starts giving birth to pups. A two-year-old boy is bleeding from a cut in the knee, and the four-year-old girl who is looking after him desperately needs help. These are typical of perhaps 10 million "latchkey" children whose parents are away and do not have babysitters. But these three are lucky because they live in a suburban area northwest of Chicago where a 24-hour hot-line service-apparently the nation's first-has been set up to give them comfort and advice. Kids Line...
...that it will be good if he does. Another daughter has brought along a man she has picked up. Though the growth of genuine love between them is one of the pleasant parts of this movie, the woman has other problems-a daughter of her own who is a latchkey child and a close woman friend: a despondent revolutionary with a near-psychotic child who is the noisiest serpent in this garden...
...labor force today (an increase of 73% in just the past ten years), they pose an increasingly acute problem: What to do with a child or children when Mother is at work? Perhaps the most publicly visible symptoms of the dilemma, and the most pathetic, are the "latchkey kids." They are conspicuous in troubled Harlem, but are also observable in nearly every large U.S. city. Altogether, there are nearly 500,000 U.S. children who wear around their necks this symbol of desperation and neglect. The key unlocks half a million different doors, opens the way into half a million different...
...Betweentimes he lived luxuriously, on the profits of his smuggling operations, in well-appointed establishments all over the Continent. Sometimes he found the opportunity to drop in on his wife and mother-in-law at Ealing, where he was a welcome visitor with his own latchkey and a place to keep a few possessions, including two submachine guns...
...Harry Truman's Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta kept old friendships warm on both sides of the political fence. Her latchkey was always out for her good friends Ike & Mamie Eisenhower, who frequently dropped over to get away from the routine at SHAPE. Last week a Washington reporter asked Minister Mesta what she would be doing the day after inauguration. Replied Perle hopefully: "I now don't know what I'll be doing. I love Luxembourg, though. I just love Luxembourg. I've had lots of offers . . . but right now all I can think about...