Word: schoolchildren
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...scene in which a band of schoolchildren is attacked, trained birds are used to fly menacingly close to the running children; mechanical birds, who peck at innocent napes, have been stitched to coat collars. Then four different strips of film are superimposed and cut into each other, drawing migratory flights photographed far away into the attack. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock's new "classic beauty" discovery, is attacked by coveys of birds and desperately bats them off with a flashlight; to shoot the minute-long sequence, six days were required-with a dozen trained birds attacking, plenty of stuffed birds...
...drop-out rate before high school is 50% (v. a 40% national average), and the rate zooms among Negroes. New York has a similar problem: nearly two-thirds of the students in its public schools are now either Negro or Puerto Rican, and 17% of the Puerto Rican schoolchildren cannot speak English...
...core of the program, said Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, will be to develop and test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth of tablets, drops, sprays, gargles and unguents...
...Uncle Kennedy." The trip's first stop was Puerto Rico, where Governor Luis Mufioz Marin had given schoolchildren the day off and issued a proclamation calling on all citizens to "celebrate with joy." Lining the observation decks at San Juan airport, a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 roared as the President, followed by Jackie in a white wool coat, stepped from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along...
...their Christmas dinner at the "Millionaire Club" and exchange "gifts": a pack of cigarettes, a half-emptied pint of whisky, a thumb-worn magazine, some tongue-worn memories. In Long Beach, Calif., the whole town will turn out for the annual parade of Christmas floats on the canal. Little schoolchildren will come home brimming with gaiety, to show their flour-and-water pasted Christmas cards to the family, and countless little boys will shuffle into the 5 & 10? stores looking for "a diamond ring for Mommy...