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...their first day in second grade, 200 Urbana, Ill. schoolchildren were told to add 19 and 3. None got it; a large and desperate proportion of them answered "112," apparently thinking "' plus 3 is 12, carry 1 and bring down 1." The kids were then asked how many cookies they would own if, having 19, they were given 3 more. Nearly every child said...
...same show. She used to be big in the Lassie series, of course, but when a change of format eased her out of the narrative, she simply did a 60-seconder for Kool-Aid, the show's sponsor, and earned $30,000 for it. She also talks to schoolchildren about Crest Toothpaste. This, says her agent, "keeps her mother image intact...
...City Planning. Bacon and Architect Oscar Stonorov mounted an elaborate display of their notions for reconverting downtown Philadelphia in a complete-scale model with animated parts. The exhibit drew 385,000 people when put on display at a downtown department store. Bacon personally visited 13 public schools and encouraged schoolchildren to work up models of how they would like their local district to look. Result was a climate of enthusiasm for improvement and change that ranged through the whole community, from self-interested businessman to self-interested slum dweller...
...Goldwater ought to counter with commercials showing schoolchildren being indoctrinated under Communism...
...RELIGION: Far from being irreligious, the Court has been extending the First Amendment's church-state separation to accommodate the rise of U.S. religious diversity. In the late '40s, it ruled that tax-paid bussing of parochial schoolchildren and some public-school released-time programs are permissible because they do not involve the state in the actual teaching or support of religion. The recent ban on public-school prayers drew the line at state-enforced religious exercises in order to protect the country's nonbelievers. The alternative would have been for the Court to pass on every...