Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among 1960's 177 million people will be 40% more five-to nine-year-olds than in 1950, 54% more 10-to 14-year-olds, 35% more oldsters over 70, but 12% fewer 25-to 29-year-olds (the Depression babies). In 1960 there will be 42 million schoolchildren, 50% more than in 1950. The present decade's marriages, down 20% from the 1940s, will create only 13.7% more families. The trend to the suburbs will continue during the decade; rural non-farm population will burgeon by more than one-third, to 43 million. California in 1960 will...
...most any conference of U.S. educators these days, the topic was bound to come up at the regional meeting of the National Education Association in Denver: What can a teacher do to help that most neglected of schoolchildren, the bright and eager pupil? Last week a genial and tireless public-school man named Eldred Harrington gave an answer that left his Denver audience astounded. "We didn't know what to make of the fellow," said one teacher, "but he certainly was interesting...
...Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back to the Lab. In their own way, politicos paid tribute to Dr. Salk by ringing statements concerning fair and even distribution of the vaccine. The New York Post echoed...
PHILIPPINES. Since the war, when sisters spent three years in internment camps, six large schools and a hospital have been built up. HAWAII. Six schools, a children's home, a social-service bureau, and release-time religious classes of thousands of schoolchildren...
...lost its skill. After journeying to Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million mindless people, swayed by the mind of one man, one idea...