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Everyone knows that the middle-aged U.S. male is in bad physical shape. But not so apparent is the poor physical fitness of the U.S. schoolchild. Last spring Oklahoma University's Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who is the part-time director of President Kennedy's physical-fitness program, picked Muskogee, Okla. (pop. 45,000), as a pilot case, asked the city to test all its schoolchildren. Of 6,557 kids who took the three-exercise exam consisting of pull-ups, sit-ups and squat-thrusts, 3,043 flunked. Stunned by the 46.9% failure rate, Muskogee...
Once Upon a Mattress (book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller; music by Mary Rodgers; dances by Joe Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so sensitive that she can feel a pea through a great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title...
...eyed beadily for salaciousness as well as political error, these winy words had as much chance of escaping notice as a nudist at a fashion show. Worse yet, they appeared in T.S. 41, From an Intelligence Agent's Notebook, a shoot-'em-up spy story in the Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union, in a review last week. "Even if you do not find the book...
...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...
Under the hot-breathed headline MY MAN BENITO, 67-year-old Rachele Mussolini scribbled a smoldering account of life and love with il Duce for Italy's weekly Oggi. They met in Dovia when she was a peasant schoolchild, he a substitute teacher. When she was 19, he stormed into her house with a cocked revolver and a disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some...