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...years of xenophobia and anti-American fulminations, after an era in which China seemed as tightly closed to Americans as the Forbidden City ever was to outsiders-here was the Chinese Premier being amiable to Americans. Here, after years of hearing that Americans were foreign devils, were masses of schoolchildren smiling and waving to the U.S. visitors...
...Bruyn trudged along lightly traveled roads, stopping each night at the homes of prearranged hosts. While her husband, a sociologist at Boston College, stayed home to keep house and be with their children, Mrs. Bruyn quietly explained her feelings about the war to friendly truckers, construction workers and schoolchildren along the way. "The vast majority of the people were with me," she reported. "I was called a traitor only three times...
...March 20 issue of the Party newspaper is unusually full of coverage of the Party's community programs such as free breakfasts for schoolchildren and free clinics. And a new slogan has appeared - "Survival pending revolution...
...trying to storm their way into the sold-out house. In Pittsburgh, 5,500 hardy souls braved subfreezing temperatures and icy 30-m.p.h. winds to see the fight outdoors at the Three Rivers Stadium. The fight fever knew no boundaries. In Manila, classes were suspended so that schoolchildren could watch along with their teachers. In Rome and London, scores of fans stayed home from work to rest up for the 4 a.m. telecast...
Triggered Anxiety. Among children, a typical symptom is fear of leaving their parents. Twenty-five percent of schoolchildren in the affected area stayed home on the first day schools reopened; some, including Charisse, agreed to return only if their parents drove them to and from school. Says Secretary Joyce Shahin of her seven-year-old son: "He has got very clingy-he wants me to sit in the bathroom and talk while he takes a bath, and he wants to sit on the same chair with me." Afflicted adults show extreme exhaustion, an unusual need for emotional support, and inability...