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...persuade an adult to co-sign. Cardholders will pay a membership fee of $15 and an 18.8% finance charge on unpaid balances, but the Kidcard's $100 credit limit seems to rule out wild shopping sprees. "This way, they build their own credit history," says bank vice president Cindy Culkin. "If they don't make the payments, they've blown it by themselves...
DIED. Margaret Culkin Banning, 90, prolific fiction writer of 40 books and hundreds of stories on changing lifestyles; in Tryon, N.C. Banning was a pioneer in choosing such topics as mixed marriages, birth control and interracial relationships as subjects for pop fantasy...
...film for as little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted and universal part of education. Says Father John Culkin, head of Fordham's Center for Communications: "Students ought to be learning the fundamentals in grade school-early high school at the latest-so that when they finally get to college, they have an opportunity to blossom out, without worrying about the mechanics...
Society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful violence," Judge Culkin maintained. But how does the execution of two teenage boys provide society with any insight into the basic primary reasons for their crime? Judge Culkin, it seems, hardly comprehends the reason behind the murder. His argument seems to hinge on the premise that the act was premediatated, that these youths have intentions comparable to those of gangsters...
...point is that social work agencies have done a great deal to convince these youths that society is not necessarily their mortal enemy. Judge Culkin's decision to execute the two Puerto Rican boys is a literal contradiction of this progressive policy...