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Millions of five-year-olds went off to kindergarten last week, and millions of parents told them not to be afraid, it would be just like Romper Room. Children's television at its best, Romper Room is an educational play session seen every weekday by more than 5,000,000 presumed corrigibles, who in their own living rooms participate in the activities on the screen, whether it means marching around in a circle banging spoons on pan bottoms or solemnly pledging allegiance to the flag and-as one mother reported-to "one naked individual with liberty and justice...
...Widener for book returns after closing time, or a Widener-Lamont accord should not be difficult to arrange. Either would be appreciated by those Harvard undergraduates who have not yet acquired the discipline and commitment of the 'Cliffies and graduate students, who reputedly troop dutifully into Widener every weekday and Saturday morning...
...Each weekday morning, a blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
Under the rules of order issued last month, the council will meet for formal discussions in Latin each morning at 8; on weekday afternoons the bishops will separate into committees, rewrite proposed legislation in shirtsleeve sessions. When the council fathers have voted approval of a decree, the Pope will convene a public session to announce the news to the world. At one audience this summer, John suggested that the council "could go on for two or maybe three years." Some Roman observers suspect that so long a council would come close to bankrupting the Vatican; the first session alone will...
They're like everybody else-almost. They go to work each weekday morning, serve communities throughout North Carolina as barbers, mechanics, cooks, secretaries and farmers. Then they go home -to their cells in state prisons. There are 306 of them, and they are convicts taking part in North Carolina's promising work-release program, a rehabilitation plan based on the idea that a prisoner with a steady outside job is of greater benefit both to himself and the state...