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...Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
...today, members of the Order of Friars Minor numbers 3,685, up 1,000 since World War II. Many of them are teachers, as are some 40,000 Franciscan lay sisters. Franciscans altogether teach an estimated 1,500,000 U.S. schoolchildren...
Plus ça Change ... In Paris, a nationwide survey among French schoolchildren revealed that their No. 1 hero is still Napoleon...
...Some $500,000 for clothing for schoolchildren so that the poorest Navajo youngster can go warmly dressed to school...
...this effort achieved only the opposite effect. Schoolchildren from whose classrooms the crucifixes had been stripped arranged for a different child to bring a crucifix from home each day, or else drew crosses on the walls. Even some party functionaries sought out remote churches to attend Mass and held clandestine church weddings late at night, the bride bringing her veil in a briefcase. Piety became a form of protest. Swedes began noticing that the Polish sailors visiting their ports did not swear the way they used to. Well, said the sailors, they'd rather be good than Communist...