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...growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto. While the story explores the various intricacies of this environment (the roof-tops, the asphalt basketball courts and the classrooms), it is primarily a study of the relationship that builds between the boy, Benji (played by Larry Scott) and his stepfather, Butler (Paul Winfield...
Another lucky resident is Fred Jones of Butler, Pa. His farm had three producing wells when he bought it 20 years ago, and they still provide him with all the gas he wants; a pipeline company siphons off the rest of the gas and pays him an annual fee, which last year came to $667. Such arrangements are common. Peoples Natural Gas Co. of Pittsburgh has 379 lease agreements with landowners in a 16-county area. Collectively the wells produce about 600 million cu. ft. of gas annually, enough to supply more than 5,000 homes for a year. Other...
...poor. Boy has a sister, who is appalled at his plan to marry the local bird-brain millionaress for her money. The sibling cherubs are truly in dire straits, having been evicted from their apartment, but are adjusting well to the street ("a nice policeman is acting as our butler"). Their problems are solved when Susie, the sister, falls in love with a chap disguised as a hobo, who is in fact about to inherit a swanky hotel. Also singing and dancing across the stage are a lessthan-scrupulous lawyer, a Mexican bandit, a stern uncle, a cooing couple...
After reading the article on minority recruitment by Tony Butler, Gail Dunbar, Ruben Medina, and Felix Torres, I feel that I must disagree with some of the authors' basic assumptions. The authors seem to feel that Harvard, as an elitist, racist institution, is some sort of "wonderful club"--the Porcellian Club of universities--and that Third World people should make up a greater proportion of the club members. "We are making a demand for recognition of our uniqueness, as Third World people. It is a recognition that Harvard gives to athletes, musicians, and alumni children, but not us. Until recognition...
Three days a week students learn math, science and English. On the other days they may be dangled off a cliff, abandoned two miles deep in a cave or locked in a padded cell. At Butler High School in western Pennsylvania, this harsh treatment is known as stress education for "in-school dropouts"-the disruptive students and juvenile offenders...