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...well advanced. But to Ken Reiner, permissiveness makes happy children happier and good teachers better, and at his Midtown School in Hollywood's Silver Lake district, he has taken it to new heights. The children may write on the walls, throw sand and food at each other, shun their classes and practice card tricks and wander about the fanciful school grounds all day, smiling at the wonder of it all. The teachers, wary of inhibiting the children, let them do whatever they want to do, and what they usually want to do is play...
Brakes on Fecundity. But if the only permissible means of birth control is to shun sexual intercourse (either totally, or during a wife's fertile period-the so-called rhythm method), how can the church hope to cope with the zooming population, which demographers maintain will jam the earth with six billion humans by the turn of the century, compared with 1.85 billion...
Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...
Flics, who raced to Saint-Tropez from Marseille, wondered how the picture poachers expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...case before Magistrate A. C. Reeves Hicks of West Windsor Township, N.J., this week goes to the heart of a painfully balanced question of the individual v. society: Are parents entitled to shun public schools and do their own teaching...