Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper" Buenos Aires boarding school, Nicolas Avellaneda. He says he stayed there till he was 15, acquiring the Spanish (he already spoke Italian and Portuguese) in which he would later interview Don Juan. But he became so unmanageable that an uncle, the family patriarch, had him placed with a foster family in Los Angeles. In 1951 he moved to the U.S. and enrolled at Hollywood High. Graduating about two years later, he tried a course in sculpture at Milan's Academy of Fine Arts, but "I did not have the sensitivity or the openness to be a great artist." Depressed...
...While Foster played quarterback and running back at Harvard, most professional scouts he has been in contact with think of him in terms of his potential as a cornerback. In his Harvard career Foster gained 694 yards on the ground for a 4.8 average and ten touchdowns, passed for 733 yards and 13 touchdowns, and returned kickoffs for 603 additional yards...
...Foster does not attend this weekend's rookie camp, chances appear slim that he will be asked again by the New England club...
...that recruited me said I should forget it if I couldn't make the camp," Foster said...
...Foster, who was bypassed in the regular NFL draft in January, has been sending letters on his own to several NFL teams looking for an offer to try out. "I've written mainly to the teams that have had coaching changes," Foster said, "because that is where there is the most opportunity to catch on. Those are the teams that are looking for new blood...