Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twelve hundred delegates of the Textile Workers' Union convention in Chicago ignored the ruling of the parent A.F.L.-C.I.O. forbidding any preconvention endorsement, roaringly acclaimed Kennedy as their choice. But the leaders of 78 A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, polled by Chicago's Roosevelt University, favored Stevenson by a 2-1 margin over Kennedy and Symington...
...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...
...high-school-aged son of an alcoholic, Alateen now numbers 65 chapters in the U.S., three in Canada, two in Australia; 50 more are being organized in the U.S. Membership in each group averages ten boys and girls whose adolescence is scarred, often literally, by an alcoholic parent. The youngsters range from 12 to 20, operate under the general guidance of Al-Anon, an older and larger offshoot for adults (wives, friends and relatives) of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like Al-Anon and AA, the teen-agers address each other by first names only, promise not to reveal one another...
...been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find his way to AA. That is a job for the alcoholic himself. Alateens seek an understanding of the problem and a way to live with it. "When it works," explained a Fort Worth adult counselor, "they quit trying to change the things they can't change...
Auer, 44, has long been active in civic and educational affairs. He has served as president of the Bronxville, N.Y. community fund, a trustee of the Taft School, president of the Bronxville, N.Y. Parent-Teacher Association, and is director and vice president of the New York State Citizens Committee for the Public Schools. Auer and his wife Carol are active in sports (tennis, skiing, swimming) and the parents of three children...