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Reagan stirred loud laughter when he pulled a letter from his pocket and read the words of eight-year-old Peter Sweeney, a second-grader in Rockville Centre, N.Y., "I hope you get well quick or you might have to make a speech in your pajamas." Reagan let the laughter subside, then read Peter's postscript: "If you have to make a speech in your pajamas, I warned you." More laughter. The letter, part of a class project, had been picked out of mountains of mail by Chief Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, but no one on Reagan's staff...
...troublesome teen-ager or even a loner. Indeed, in the seventh and ninth grades he was elected president of his home room, and as an eighth-grader managed the basketball team. John Hinckley was no aloof oddball then. Says his junior-high friend Kirk Dooley: "No one rooted louder than Hinckley for the Highland Park Red Raiders...
Under Schubert's cautious guidance, Jesse improved enough in his first year to qualify in the spring of 1976 for the first Short Course nationals at Long Beach's Belmont Plaza. The swimming world had only six months to prepare itself after the diminutive ninth-grader's first performance in a major competition at the end of the following summer, Vassallo swam to his first national championship at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool...
...bother you that some schools are primarily for ambitious high schoolers and others for delinquent collegians: the same levelling forces thrive everywhere, forces that can make the most mature college senior behave like a third-grader...
Housewife Marian Finger, 44, was startled to hear her son Eric, a seventh-grader at the Emma C. Smith Elementary School in Livermore, Calif., describe what he learned in school. "Mom," he said, "evolutionists don't believe...