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...singed tortilla, John David is ready to leave for school. Dressed stylishly in a blue-striped button-down shirt, blue sweater, wide-pocket gray jeans and Nike sneakers, the sixth- grader hops up into the cab of his father's pickup truck for the ten-minute ride to Bedichek Middle School, where a majority of the 1,040 students are Anglo. After school, John David takes a city bus home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: John David, Austin | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...think the idea of the American Dream has vanished from these kids' minds," says Suzie Doerr, a teacher at Bedichek. "These kids think life is fancy-free." Hermelinda Garza Perez, a second-generation Mexican American, teaches eighth-graders. "Their goal is to get by, not to get better," says Perez. As a child, she went with her mother to her job as a maid. "My mother always said to me, 'I don't want you cleaning someone else's commode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: John David, Austin | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

John David's biggest uncertainty involves drugs. Will he succumb to pressures to take drugs? At Bedichek, there is a club called B.A.D. (Bobcats Against Drugs) and T shirts proclaiming the club's message: I'M HAPPY TO BE S.A.D. (Students Against Drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: John David, Austin | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...week Editor Brann was very much alive. His words smoked and crackled in the pages of Brann and the Iconoclast (University of Texas; $3.95), by Charles Carver-and burned again in Waco. The book sold briskly and set such old arguments raging as the one between Texas Naturalist Roy Bedichek, 79, and his wife. Fifty years ago, a bitter dispute over Brann's views almost broke their engagement. Shortly before the book came out, when Mrs. Bedichek learned that her husband had written its introduction, she almost broke up a dinner party with her angry objections. Brann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iconoclast | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...BEDICHEK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push & Scamper | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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