Word: video
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...
...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...child available who seemed well matched to them, and Paget had to call on the clearinghouse services of the year-old Adoption Resource Exchange of North America (ARENA) in order to locate a likely girl. She proved to be in Wilmington, 390 miles away. By viewing the video tape, the Garretts saw Amy more vividly than they could have through any number of snapshots and verbal descriptions, made the trip south with virtual certainty of success. Paget would like to see his method become a two-way proposition that allows older children up for adoption to get a videotape look...
...Stokes got them to donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free meat to Cleveland's poor. He launched town-hall meetings to touch people for volunteer work at city hall. He bewitched the audience of Captain Cleveland, a kiddie video show advocating good citizenship. His biggest decision was to call the first planning session for a major, long-term effort to revitalize the city. By last week, his $1.5 billion "Cleveland: Now!" campaign was already a thundering popular success...
Soldiers trained by TV learn their lessons more thoroughly; scores at Fort Ord have jumped by as much as 20% since video tapes were first used to teach the military code of conduct. "It's more relaxing because the man's not watching you," said Recruit Dwight