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Congratulations and thanks for the cogent article calling attention to "that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home" [Oct. 27]. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is one of six child-care institutions merged during the past two decades to form our agency...
Still, a new kind of problem child has replaced the vanishing orphan in the U.S.'s conscience. He is the child who is homeless as a result of divorce, illegitimacy, parental abuse or mental illness-orphaned in spirit if not in fact. There are 283,000 of these children. About 96,000-the emotionally disturbed, the mentally retarded, the medically ill-are cared for in special institutions. The rest are the beneficiaries of that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home...
...Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...
...standards of his own. He is at the testing age. He tests his bravery soloing a plane and his manhood with a prostitute. But the test of his humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color-blind candor, Sherman and Jester are as glowingly close as two lovers...
Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, a top Soviet film maker, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan...