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...plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past the "Inn of the Red Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built by Architect Giovanni Michelucci as the entrance to the park. In other cities and villages across Italy film shows, art exhibits and seminars are extolling the magic of the story...
...billion budget. School districts are thus faced with the choice of either hiking prices or slimming down portions; many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
Among the exhibits are re-creations of the watery environments of coral reefs and a section of the Maine coastline (assembled, ironically, from casts of rock taken along the shore of Massachusetts). The last is sure to be a hit with schoolchildren, since they will be able to pick up and handle living tidal organisms such as horseshoe crabs, moon snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot...
...your article about the Church of England's new divorce policy [July 20], you mentioned the marital career of Henry VIII and footnoted the fates of his six wives. To keep their stories straight, we Americans might try remembering a simple rhyme taught to British schoolchildren...
...eventual ruler will confront difficult problems. Fully one-third of the country's population of 1.9 million is composed of primary schoolchildren, who may face a shrinking job market in the years ahead. With farming depressed, people are crowding into cities, exacerbating social tensions...