Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undoubtedly be a better account of the Boston Marathon if there were space to tell the story of Bob Hall, who conquered the difficult course on a wheelchair in a time of about 2:40. Or that of Will Rodgers, a former winner and Boston's beloved All-American boy who, after leading in the early going, dropped out of the race in Newton with a leg problem. Or that of the hectic start at Hopkinton, where the record field of over 3000 runners vied with Paul Newman (making a movie on the race) for the overflow crowd's attention...
HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR CHILD TODAY?, Brill and her colleagues occasionally find themselves acting as advocates for children against their own parents. One lawyer represented a six-year-old boy who had been neglected by his mother; though the court ruled that the parent could keep the child, a program of supervision was set up to discourage future mistreatment. Occasionally there are heartening successes: a youth injured while chasing a purse snatcher turned out to be a former purse snatcher himself, rehabilitated through clinic-inspired counseling and work programs...
...century, juvenile courts were considered to be benevolent centers concerned with the welfare of children, who thus did not require formal legal safeguards. But practice fell short of the ideal. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed juvenile justice procedures through In re Gault, a case involving an Arizona boy abruptly jailed after making an obscene telephone call. The court decided that Gault and other young defendants should have many due-process rights available previously only to adults. Among them were the rights to consult an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses...
...couple dinner to benefit the Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan of Donatello's David locked up-a sure-fire draw for the new Ren Cen-but the Italian culture ministry said...
This time around, we get to watch Oliver Barrett IV, former model Harvard boy turned lonely do-gooder, deal with the loss of his wife and with his eventual self-discovery. The story picks up 18 months after Jenny's untimely death. Oliver has thrown himself into his work as a crusading liberal lawyer, coping with grief by shutting off all his emotions. He does not allow himself to think about other women, for he is consumed by guilt. In the last chapters of Love Story, Jenny tells "Preppie" not to feel guilty for robbing her of freedom and adventure...