Word: six-year-old
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Circuit Judge John Prunty of Miami last week announced his decision: six-year-old Hildy Ellis could remain with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline, Mass., the Jewish couple who took her ten days after she was born out of wedlock to her Roman Catholic mother, Marjorie McCoy. Judge Prunty ruled that the Ellises were fit parents, approved their application to complete adoption procedures under Florida law. The decision ended six years of litigation and controversy: Hildy's mother had persuaded a Massachusetts court to order the Ellises to give Hildy up so that her mother could...
...saying, Edmund de Caussin went home to pray with his wife and neighbors. It was shortly thereafter, as he knelt saying his rosary, that word came. Six-year-old Mary had been found in a wooded lot a mile from home, raped, dreadfully mutilated and dead...
Over the Swimming Pools. In the nation's economic and social life, the federal program will work far-reaching changes. Burgeoning highways will start new businesses all along their routes; $150 million in new plants has gone up along Massachusetts' six-year-old Route 128, and the recently completed New York State Thruway has already attracted dozens of industries. New towns will grow up around the geometric cloverleafs, and commuters will be able to drive long distances to work at a mile a minute. Highway motels, now growing at the rate of 3,000 a year, will multiply...
Last week a slim, grey-eyed woman in a blue-bordered sari was briskly going about the business of making Calcutta a better place to die in-and to ward off death when possible. Mother Teresa and 62 sisters of the six-year-old Roman Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity are running one of Asia's most remarkable missions at the very gate of the temple of Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction...
...Records! Records!" yells the six-year-old with a gleeful face, dragging his mother toward the rack of colored "envelopes in the supermarket. Mother escapes to the grocery department, leaving her son to make his choice. She is barely out of sight when the tot spots a picture of a locomotive on one of the jackets and shrieks. "Ma! Ma! I'm ready!" She returns and exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...