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...five feel rejected." They also are generally too "self-interested" to either "socialize" or "pay attention to real learning," he argues. Superintendent Lester Ball of the Oak Park, Ill., schools believes that "the average suburban environment can be as good or better than a school" for a four-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning: School for Four-Year-Olds? | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...specialty in 4 min. 2.8 sec.-just fast enough to leave his nearest competitor 15 yds. behind. But he also competed in the half mile, an event he has entered "only five times before," ran the 880 yds. in 1 min. 44.9 sec.-beating Peter Snell's four-year-old world mark by .2 sec. Shrugged Ryun: "I had to do something to break the monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: Puzzling Prodigy | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...case of a good old horse against a good young horse. The youngster is Bret Hanover, the hulking (1,100 lbs.) four-year-old pacer whose 47 victories in 50 races made him the winningest race horse in the U.S. The oldster is Cardigan Bay, 10, a New Zealand-bred pacer whose own racing record showed 21 victories in 39 U.S. starts and total winnings of $586,981-$29,149 more than Bret Hanover. The race, a $65,000 stakes at New York's Yonkers Raceway last week, was appropriately called the Pace of the Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeuppance | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...enough to ensure that Bill Russell will be a controversial coach. Russell would be controversial in any color. Often arrogant, usually angry, always outspoken, he is a born boat rocker-"all hung up," in the words of his close friend and archrival, Wilt Chamberlain. He named his four-year-old daughter Kenyatta after Jomo Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Basketball: All the Credentials | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...American Indian Project volunteers everywhere, the summer is one of small achievements -- of solving a 10-year-old's "identity crisis," making a psychopath cry, teaching a withdrawn six-year old girl to swim, telling a four-year-old how to skip stones. The larger social problems evade solution...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: PBH Volunteers Strive to Understand Problems, Fears of American Indians | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

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