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...individual. People are rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract arguments. "A teeming population" and the possibility of toxic air and spoiled natural resources are less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child is personal. 30-33 per cent of all lower...
...million Columbia gymnasium was planned for an area that many of these youths use as a playground...
...Recreation Department view is dubious. Houghton parents have suggested that the city might erect the classrooms around the perimeter of the field, leaving the inside for ballplayers. Even if this could not be done, one ball field could easily be relocated on another playground...
Chris "Rabbit" Gallagher, Harvard's volatile center, grew up playing playground basketball where games could more aptly be called ten man rumbles...
...they may admit that TV can expose new channels of experience, there is still the lingering fear that some day Video Boy is going to tie a towel around his neck and try to fly off the garage roof like Bat Fink; or, if somebody crosses him in the playground, he may poke his fingers in his eyes in the style of the Three Stooges. But mostly, with misty recollections of taffy pulls and swimming holes, parents are bothered by a vague feeling that, somehow, as one mother puts it, "life should be lived, not watched...