Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent whose child has been refused admission to kindergarten...
Despite the laws of Massachusetts and of the Roman Catholic Church, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
...relinquished all interest in RKO theaters, kept control of the newly formed RKO Pictures Corp. and its subsidiaries, RKO Radio Pictures and RKO-Pathe. Though O'Neil gains RKO Radio Pictures, Hughes (with 1,262,000 shares) and Floyd Odium (with 1,250,000) still control the former parent company...
...Parents and educators are inclined to view these un-Japanese gyrations with misgivings and even to take steps. In the city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink...
...words were borne out. From the Legion's bottom-pinching, water-throwing "fun" organization, La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux, came some of the most agonized sounds in many a year: the Forty and Eight threatened to walk out on the parent organization...