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...Oberschule (elementary school) in Leipzig, kids are urged to keep an ear peeled at home for anti-Communist remarks by their parents; placards on the schoolroom walls proclaim "The Party Is Right" and "Struggle Today to Halt Atom War Tomorrow!" In the desperate labor shortage, tens of thousands of schoolchildren are taken from their studies to work several hours a week in factories and fields; already 88% of all girls between the ages of 18 and 20 are at work, and pressure is on as well to force women over 30 to take jobs...
...McRacken's face and the legend: "Ici pour sauver ce pout, James McRacken, 315 Bataillon, U.S.A., se sacrifia le cinq Août, 1944." President Truman sent a message for its dedication; General Charles de Gaulle knelt to place a floral Cross of Lorraine. Through the years, schoolchildren replaced the flowers as they withered. Each Aug. 5, the residents followed their mayor to the bridge to pay their somber respects to Jim McRacken. Each Christmas, they sent a gift to McRacken's daughter. And, regularly, they invited Maggie McRacken to visit Mayenne. Wrote former Mayor Charles Drou...
...scandal seemed a standard scene from the Wagnerian opera: building inspectors on the take because the Board of Education pays them too little, winks at their peccadilloes, and demoralizes them with the behavior of those higher up. But it struck the public hard; playing with the safety of schoolchildren was more than ordinarily corrupt. Said Theobald, a civil engineer whose academic-political experience as a former president of Queens College and a former deputy mayor should have prepared him for Big Town surprises: "It is quite a jolting experience...
...annually." What bothers Ulbricht is satellite East Germany's lagging rate of industrial expansion; it was largely shortage of labor that forced Ulbricht to scrap East Germany's aircraft industry a few months ago. In desperation, the party is urging housewives to go into the factories, and schoolchildren often "donate" a day of work in the fields...
Given two chimpanzees (A and B), both "other directed," both infinitely fond of food scraps, and occupying neighboring cages in a public zoo. By making a fool of himself (by scratching, jumping, chattering, etc.), Chimp A wins the love and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the selfless little schoolchildren who visit the zoo. Question: How do A's antics affect the behavior...