Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer volunteers help write the stories that actually appear in the paper, and students who attend Harvard year-round may try out for positions on the staff. Although we handle the editing, lay-out and production chores, there's plenty to do for experienced newswriters, as well as for novices interested in learning the business...
...Callahan makes no concession to the age of the audience. "If children don't understand a word," he says, "they will search it out. That's how their language will grow." In schools he visits regularly, students often ask to skip lunch or gym to attend a storytelling, a high compliment in these days of wall-to-wall TV. Teachers find O'Callahan not only stirs total attention, but inspires students to read. As Newton P.T.A. Officer Jessica Davis puts it, "It is extraordinary to see a storyteller with the tools of an art centuries old captivate...
While in high school, Robert, 19, joined the HEW-sponsored Upward Bound program, which helped him attend special courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, paying room, board and pocket expenses. Last September he began his freshman year at Northeastern University. A $900 scholarship from the state coupled with a $1,600 grant from HEW'S Educational Opportunities program covered more than half of the $4,370 cost. His job in the library, which he obtained through an HEW-assisted work-study program, and an HEW-financed student loan, made up the difference...
...Roman Catholic Church, which represents half the population of Angola, has accused the government of violating constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms. The church complains that children are being sent to other Marxist states for education. About 60 young Angolans are in Cuba to study citrus-farming techniques, and 150 more attend schools there to learn both Spanish and Marxism-Leninism. The protests have provoked government jitters. Angola's principal newspaper, Jornal do Luanda, recently called for a "struggle against rumors and rumormongering" that might prove "destabilizing." And the death penalty, which was abolished by the Portuguese a century ago, has been...
...Lowell House kitchen, Mrs. Daley, says, "Kids come in late and we have open house. I don't mind it, though. Some of these kids aren't as financially well-off and they can't afford to eat out." Thelma recently received an invitation to St. Louis to attend the wedding of a former House resident. Thelma says she would have loved to have gone, but she had to work that weekend...