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...Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, 63, turned up in San Francisco to pursue her old fascination. Her Grace announced that she wants to buy one authentic stagecoach, a covered wagon that had survived an Indian attack, a saloon door (swinging) and other fond wild West relics to install for English schoolchildren at a museum of Americana at Bath...
...habitually painted them as small adults. A 12th century miniature illustrating Jesus' injunction to "suffer the little children to come unto me" shows Christ surrounded by eight undersized men. Before the 17th century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven. Schoolchildren carried weapons, which they were supposed to check at the schoolroom door. Marriages often took place in childhood. Youngsters drank heavily and even wenched according to their abilities. Montaigne wrote that "A hundred scholars have caught the pox before getting to their Aristotle lesson...
...relic of the monasteries that Henry VIII abolished in 1540, the Abbey is now called the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster. Serving also as a school, the Abbey has an adjacent cloister, a museum and a deanery. From its schoolchildren-including Dryden, Milne, John Gielgud and Peter Ustinov-have come seven Prime Ministers, ten archbishops and at least four convicted murderers...
...Government's concern for children begins early-with hospital care for premature babies. Other health and rehabilitation programs for youngsters are myriad. Government funds help provide day care for children of working mothers. Some 15 million schoolchildren, or one of every three in the nation, get a hot lunch every day, thanks to a program in which the U.S. pays one-fifth of the bill. Social security checks go each month to more than 1,500,000 orphaned children, while children disabled before reaching 18 may under certain circumstances receive Government payments for the rest of their lives. Such...
...kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed. UNICEF had just been named winner of the $57,000 Nobel Peace Prize for its help to needy children throughout the world...