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...from the effect of living elsewhere. The Schecters lived in a foreign environment before--Steve was born in Japan, and the family had lived there for several years while his father was Time bureau chief in Tokyo. The Schecters, Steve says, couldn't immerse themselves in Japanese society and attend Japanese schools because "there was almost a racial problem. We just didn't fit in." The children attended American schools in Japan and led basically Western-style lives...
...That's the whole concept of immigrant labor, that the whole family works," Guizar said. He added that his father could have "followed the fruit," and worked year round, but instead stayed in Gilroy, working 12 hour days nine months of the year, so his children could attend school. Guizar's father never went to school, and his mother had only a fifth-grade education. "For us to gain the education they never had, that was very important to them," Guizar says...
...months after court-ordered busing went into effect in Louisville and the surrounding areas of Jefferson County (TIME, Sept. 15), more than 2,000 of the 129,000 children scheduled to attend public school in the district are still staying away from classes. Now local officials are moving to force recalcitrant parents into line. This week the first boycotting parents to go on trial before a jury will appear in a special court created last November. The charge: contributing to the truancy of their children. Says Juvenile Court Prosecutor Frank Burke Jr.: "We'll have more than...
Mary Shinkwin, the captain of the squad, hopes to attend Radcliffe next year. She and her sisters began playing basketball just three years ago in the playgrounds of East Cambridge and despite her meteoric rise to stardom she has maintained a supportive attitude towards her male counterparts. "They ma have been a little jealous of us but we went to all their games and never gave them a hard time...
After posting bond, Monette returned to her parents' home in River Ridge, La., where she is now awaiting a removal hearing. Her lawyer says it has been re-scheduled three times because he has "other cases to attend to." He says it has not yet been determined whether the trial (if there is one) will be held in Boston or New Orleans, but she says an arraignment should come soon. Monette's mother will say only that her daughter doesn't wish "to discuss the matter...