Word: agers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noticing a long-haired teen-ager eating an ice cream cone and chatting with a girl in a parked car, a policeman in Hyannis, Mass., told the youth to move on; the car was blocking traffic. "He appeared dazed and unsteady on his feet, and his eyes were bloodshot," the officer later explained. So he asked the youth if he was drunk. "No," said 17-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and, according to the cop, spat a mouthful of ice cream into his face. Hauled into court on a loitering charge (just two weeks after his one-year probation...
...black teen-ager had good reason to be upset. His injured father had been rushed to the emergency room of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, and the distraught boy was unable to learn anything about his condition. Harried doctors and nurses were too busy to concern themselves with a frightened kid. Then the boy met Mahon Washington. The avuncular black man ducked into the treatment room to learn the patient's prognosis, returned to assure the youngster that his father would live...
...something about the poor condition of the bomb shelter in his basement, he might face a fine and trial. He was somewhat relieved to discover, however, that similar warnings had been sent to nearly every one of his 62 neighbors in Jerusalem's Nayot section, including a teen-ager who was using his family's shelter as a study room by day and a discotheque by night. Nonetheless, writes Levin, the incident had a sobering effect after a year of peace. His report...
Died. Dr. R. Walter Johnson, 72, the Negro physician whose hobby was molding promising black youngsters into tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...
...variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many an Aquarian-Ager has been able to convert his basement into a tape factory. Nearly every city has record stores, gas stations and supermarkets with selections of bootlegged tapes and records, which are usually packaged in unadorned boxes and albums with plain white covers...