Word: agers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form urges "every morally decent adult and teen-ager in America" to promise to boycott about 100 products for three months. As a reminder, the members of the movement get a wallet-size card listing products that are outlawed by the movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent...
...defendant, 33, stood accused of five rapes, with victims ranging from a teen-ager to a young mother walking with her children in Chicago's Lincoln Park to a 61-year-old woman. After a jury found him guilty of the one rape he was actually on trial for, Judge Robert Sklodowski pronounced him a "rape bomb, ready to explode at any time." Sklodowski handed down the maximum sentence: 60 years, 30 of which must be served before he can be paroled. Such stern penalties are rare from many judges, but they are standard procedure in three courtrooms...
Bradbury began writing science fiction as a teen-ager in Waukegan, Ill. But it was not until François Truffaut filmed Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 that he was widely saluted as one of the masters of the genre. "My life has been full of myths," says Bradbury, whose fiction often suggests an amalgam of the classic fables, Frank Baum's Oz books and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...
...himself, not society." The '60s may have held down the teen-age suicide rate by providing a sense of community, built around drugs and opposition to Viet Nam. "But even that's gone," says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Irving Berkovitz. "There's nothing to distract a teen-ager today...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...