Word: four-year-old
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Eric Bennett is a four-year-old who lives in a predominantly Negro housing project in Detroit. His mother supports four sons on $198 a month in alimony and relief. Some of his playmates have never seen crayons, children's books, raw carrots or dogs (barred in the project). Many of them rarely see their fathers; others see too much of them because the men are jobless. Society has a way of dealing with boys like Eric. Sooner or later, they take an IQ test, get labeled "stupid." and quit school. The tests reflect "cultural" knowledge-things like dogs...
...National Observer's attention-getting features are not uniformly wonderful either. Its cartoons are contently unfunny. The "Current Events Classroom" reduces issues to terms that are overly simplistic; it is easy enough to picture a four-year-old reading some stunning revelation--say, that atom bombs produce fallout--and exclaiming "Oh, my doodness!" But it is hard to imagine anyone much older learning anything in the "Classroom...
Among the demonstrators were 30 small children. One four-year-old boy carried a sign reading "I want to be a daddy some day." His white armband was cut from a diaper. The youngest demonstrator, aged 5 1/2 months, slept in his carriage most of the afternoon...
...Paris the plastic bombs went off all week long. One exploded at the house of Culture Minister André Malraux, but the famed author of Man's Fate was not at home. The detonation drove 300 splinters of glass into the face and body of four-year-old Delphine Renard, whose engineer father occupied the ground floor. Doctors last week operated in the hope of saving her sight...
...came on a beautifully sunny day. Accompanied by Jack. Old Joe strolled out of his Palm Beach mansion and got into a waiting limousine. Just then, four-year-old Caroline Kennedy appeared at the doorway of the house. "I'm going to the airport with your father." Joseph Kennedy called. "Would you like to come along?" Of course she would. She climbed onto her grandfather's lap and went off to wave the President away for Washington...