Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cost of installation: $2,500 per hospital. ¶ In Bordeaux, France, a district court set a legal precedent for all France, ordered the government to pay damages to parents of eight local schoolchildren who developed abscesses in 1949 as a result of compulsory vaccination against TB. ¶ Manhattan Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher reported that multiple births (twins or better) occur far more frequently among Negroes than whites, run highest among women 35 to 39 years old. The incidence of quadruplets among whites is once in 570,196 births, among Negroes once in 237,897. For triplets, the current ratio...
...from viewers pour in at a rate of 1,500 a week. "The kids' requests show the effect of comic books," says Baker sadly. "They're always wanting horrible things like two trains crashing into each other at 90 miles an hour." An entire grade of Minneapolis schoolchildren wrote in asking to see Joan of Arc burned at the stake. There was only one dissenter in the class: he wanted to see a ship blow up in midocean...
...performance last week an inflated nine-foot lobster and a cardboard octopus of grand design decorated the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall as schoolchildren and proud parents filed in to hear the Cincinnati Symphony do Sea Secrets, a Cantata for Speakers, Chorus and Orchestra...
Priests were thrown off the public payroll, official visits by public dignitaries to shrines were forbidden, schoolchildren's pilgrimages were stopped. Shrine attendance dropped 50% to 70%; the gods, in failing to protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token...
Paddles & Policemen. Next day, on the road to Shan States, Burmans lined up once again to eye the visitors in expressionless curiosity. Here and there, well-drilled schoolchildren called out a greeting: "Bulganin, Khrushchev, mar bar sai!" (Long live Bulganin and Khrushchev). At one point, after the party had passed, a Western reporter decided to experiment: "John Foster Dulles!" he prompted the kids. "Doolis, mar bar sai!" they sang out obediently...