Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanzania, it again rained on the Soviet President's parade. The crowds of schoolchildren and workers dutifully turned out by President Julius Nyerere for visiting celebrities had wildly cheered the fatigue-clad revolutionary from Havana a few days before. They could barely muster enough enthusiasm to wave their little flags for the aging (74) apparatchik from Moscow...
...trip was a four-hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself: "I feel like an angel...
...nice Valentine's-card poem," said Poet Laurie Lee. Other critics less charitably called Betjeman's work "absolutely pathetic" and "nursery-rhyme gibberish." Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn vowed to write a superior poem (he could not), and the Sunday People invited schoolchildren to submit their efforts with the appeal, "Can YOU do better than Sir John...
Last week the government promised free textbooks for most black schoolchildren by 1978, and Soweto's parents and "Mayor" Thebehali hope the students will relent and drop the boycott. But SSRC is adamant. "We understand our parents' anguish," says a Soweto high school senior named Michael, who, as a known SSRC sympathizer, is on the run from the police and sleeps in a different house every night. "We know as well as they do that education is the tool of our liberation in the long run but not the second-class schooling we get under the Bantu Education...
Orienteering is a survival skill with military origins. It made the transfer to civilian sport shortly after World War I when a former Swedish army officer set up orienteering programs for schoolchildren. Students who had balked at conventional fitness programs poured into the forests to race from checkpoint to checkpoint, studying maps, steadying compasses and racing against the orienteer's chief adversary, the clock...