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Also--and residents in Winthrop's J-entry be warned--he has assembled a hi-fi set of amazing amplitude, easily capable of penetrating fire-doors, plaster walls, bathrooms and closets. And when he buys another tuner the set will achieve true stereo adulthood. "I love music, and have always been a follower of the B.S.O. And the Owens have even introduced to me the glory that is jazz...
...most conspicuous U.S. body manipulator, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, says Birdwhistell, "is most successful with the two-to-four-year-olds, and 12-to-14-year-olds, because he joins them in a particular kind of mockery of serious adulthood. Presley's wiggles seem almost an imitation of an imitation of being sexy. That's why so many in the audience laugh and puritans react so violently. Presley is making a mockery of something they regard seriously...
...schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best to attract savings from U.S. women, even go so far as to hire home economists to give household financial advice in an effort to attract the housewife's savings dollar. Beyond that, bankers, who once contented themselves with all- purpose savings accounts, are luring...
...been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth: the Years from Ten to Sixteen (Harper; $5.95), Dr. Gesell and his chief collaborators, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames, bring the young American through adolescence to the brink of adulthood...
...Students study the major problems of their time, e.g., the Atomic Revolution, modern man's political loyalties, bring to bear on them all that they have learned before. Essentially, says Dickey, this is "applied liberal arts, an effort to give our men a transition between the classroom and adulthood. A man spends four years with a book; after that he is inclined to rely on periodicals and newspapers for his information. There is entirely too little effort in undergraduate experience to relate the liberal arts to what a fellow lives with when...