Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college dropout during the Depression, Fink went back to City College in 1956, and is now working on his master's in public administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He talks to his men as if they too were in the classroom. "You can't go out there with the idea that hippies are a problem," he lectures his men at roll call. "You can't stand there with a stolid countenance. Don't wait for them to break the ice. You have to initiate the communication...
...said, 108 Americans and two Canadians chartered a plane and flew to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. They were seeking "psychic surgery" at the hands of Antonio Agpaoa, who styles himself "Dr. Tony." Where Agpaoa ever picked up the title of Dr. is unclear; he is a school dropout (at the third grade) and, said Dorman, is a former sleight-of-hand artist. He claims that he can perform abdominal, heart and even brain surgery with his bare hands, using no anesthesia or aseptic precautions. He also claims that he can close the surgical opening without leaving a scar...
...dropout soon meets other dropouts, or malcontents on the verge of dropping out; he establishes bonds, he eventually becomes part of a community of his own kind. This community faces the problems of any social unit: how to protect itself, how to meet the physical needs of its people, and how to meet their spiritual needs...
Loser's Cause. In the death house of the New Jersey state prison in Trenton, Smith, a high school dropout, has ambitiously educated himself. An enrollee in many college correspondence courses, he also subscribes to publications as diverse as National Review and the Peking Review. He is obviously intelligent, and his prose, though sometimes wooden, is sturdy. What his brief suffers from most is-as he himself says-the fact that "I am by nature a transcendentally unemotional, matter-of-fact individual, the antithesis of what a man testifying in his own behalf, with his life at stake, should...
Railroad Presidents. The conditions of imprisonment vary just as widely. The Government tries to put each resister into the federal prison in his area, and also takes into account his age and education when assigning him. College Dropout Sullivan notes that at Danbury, which is known as the country club of federal prisons, he had the company of "a couple of lawyers, at least one doctor and three railroad presidents." In Allenwood, Pa., resisters make up almost half the prison population of 300. But elsewhere they are a minority among bootleggers, forgers and robbers. A few have even been tossed...