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...Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun). He has not only crossed some color lines, but a great many other lines as well. His appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first time, he broke attendance records everywhere he sang. "I can play Belafonte," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams, "and not lose any part of the audience...
...news broke, schools began closing. "Mockery and disrespect for Guatemalan schoolchildren," declared a student manifesto. "Besides possessing a normal psychobiological makeup, a candidate for such a post should also have the necessary culture and education." Teachers' groups begged Ydígoras to change his mind...
...bulk of state funds will go for the requirements of an exploding population: schools, mental hospitals, highways, new buildings, welfare-and interest costs on bond issues floated to pay for major projects already begun. Much of the increase will go to take care of schoolchildren and longer-living indigent old people, who pay no taxes themselves...
...through the dedication ritual (and the six-month indoctrination leading up to it). Usually, it is enough for the Reds to make clear that few students not so dedicated have much chance of going on to secondary schools and universities. The Communists claim that 72.5% of all eligible schoolchildren in East Germany are now registered for Youth Dedication, as compared to only 25% last year...
...Even while she's brewing green tea or boiling rice," says an awed banker, "today's Japanese housewife is calculating risks and interest rates." Her children are not far behind. Saving against the day when they too will buy stocks as mamma does, schoolchildren savers have an average $4.93 put away in 27,000 school banks, with total deposits of $43.8 million...