Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro boy carries home his school books, but does not get to study them because his neurotic father heaves the lot out the window. A Negro girl, whose father has deserted the family, is free to leave for school only after she washes and feeds eight younger brothers and sisters, and so she is usually late. A Puerto Rican boy, who came to the U.S. in 1956 and speaks only Spanish at home, shyly refused to try his halting English in school, scored a predictable 74 on an IQ test given in the new language...
...George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn, sees individual students as often as three times a week. Sometimes they merely want to hear a friendly word; sometimes they need real help. Counselor Schulman will ask for a social worker to cope with an alcoholic father, arrange an appointment with the project psychologist for children whose lives are impossibly tangled, or give out small sums from project funds to help buy food. One measure of his success: not one of the project's teen-agers has been in real trouble; normally 10% would have become...
...Illusions. At George Washington last week, the young Negro boy whose father hates books was working successfully in his studies, and the Puerto Rican lad who refused to talk is talking; he told Counselor Schulman that he wanted to be a newspaper reporter, agreed that he could never succeed unless he could ask questions in English. No one has any illusions about how many college-quality scholars are likely to come from the experiment's first group. The girl with the eight brothers and sisters may never be a pediatrician, as she hopes, but because of the experiment...
...loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted...
Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain's great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the dishwater, he got an idea that is likely to revolutionize the manufacture of flat glass. Last week Alastair Pilkington explained his "float glass" process in the New Scientist...