Word: public
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...Strike-Out King" [Aug. 31]. My indignation is not directed against Pitcher Harry Murphy but against those adults who have made winning such an issue that children's baseball, once an enjoyable sport, becomes such an ordeal that a little eight-year-old boy wets his pants in public from fear. And what is worse is that it is not physical fear of pain; it is fear of certain humiliation...
...wonder that our mental hospitals are not only kept full but are brimming over when children are subjected to public terror and humiliation that they are too inexperienced to cope with and to rationalize the way adults have to. Have we delivered American childhood from the sweat shop only to turn it over to such Romanesque pastimes as the terrors and tensions of the Ottawa, Kans. brand of peewee baseball...
Perhaps even more remarkable was Khrushchev's personal flouting of the other Communist canon, whereby the servants of the people are impersonal, i.e., their private lives are of no consequence, hence are not subject to public inquiry. Last week, in an unprecedented bending to U.S. hunger for personalities, he posed for photographs with his whole family in the Kremlin. Khrushchev in the U.S.-for all the stirrings of conscience and stirrings of resentment among those who fiercely oppose his coming-will probably get more than his share of curious and chaotic attention (see below...
...planned small country luncheon for the Khrushchev party over to a Des Moines caterer. Most overtaxed solo performer of all: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assigned by the President to be Khrushchev's official host, ready to answer, parry or debate any of the unpredictable Khrushchev public thrusts...
...concept that the U.S. ought to join with prospering Western allies to create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association (IDA), capitalized with a joint $1 billion, which will get its first public airing week after next, when the governors of the World Bank meet in Washington...