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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part 2 of "Animal Rescue Squad" takes viewers on an animal ambulance ride, into an ASPCA hospital, and then travels back in history to the nineteenth century, when there was no organized cam paign against cruelty to animals...
...committee, no hoopla, no autos. Misin formed about their plans, the province chief was waiting for them at another airstrip. The only transportation at Dong Ha was three dusty U.S. Marine trucks waiting for passengers on an other plane. The drivers were willing to let the candidates hitch a ride, but al most to a man, the travelers said it was beneath their dignity to roll into Quang Tri aboard such nondescript vehicles...
...thinks it stops a man from using his mind. Since religion doesn't explain modern man's existence satisfactorily, he needs a new explanation. But instead of struggling toward it, he collapses into a coma. Society caters to the comatose state with push buttons, sunglasses, cars that ride without jolting you, and a vacant-eyed model as the symbol of womanhood. Parrish should think twice before shoplifting from the enemy camp...
...young readers laugh, they also learn the value of patience from Horton, who sits on a bird's egg in a tree for eleven trying months, gets his reward when he hatches an elephant-bird. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose is a model of kindness who lets animals ride on his horns because "a host, above all, must be nice to his guests." Geisel wrote about "star-bellied Sneetches," who thought they were better than "plain-bellied Sneetches," to score points against prejudice. He does not mind being called "the greatest moralist since Elsie Dinsmore," contends that...
...disorderly aspect of the Israeli Defense Army is largely a result of the fact that when the Israelis go to war they mobilize practically the entire population. Soldiers in civilian shoes and wearing a wild assortment of beach hats ride to the front in milk wagons, garbage trucks, and taxis, many of them have left their shops and farms only hours before to meet at pre-arranged checkpoints. The Arabs have also been singularly impressed with the disorderly advance of the Israeli forces: "Those Jews don't attack according to the book." an Egyptian officer complained to a Syrian after...