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...President was depicted in many guises: as SuperNixon, as a globe-trotting ambassador in a basketball uniform, as a missile rocketing to fame. "He has helped the world a lot," said one sixth-grader. "One way is through friendship with China. If China wasn't friendly, President Nixon would probably be dead...
...seventh-grader nominated India's Indira Gandhi because "she has done more for the welfare of her people than any other leader before her." Several opted for Brooklyn's Shirley Chisholm ("she has helped history by running, or trying to run, for President"), and a fourth-grader picked Angela Davis "because she has affected us so much...
Consumer concern is filtering down ranks. A fifth grader at Lincoln School in Euclid, Ohio, ten-year-old Billy HanIon, blew 35? of his allowance on an eight-ounce package of Nestle's Quik. When he got home, he discovered that his mother had purchased two pounds for 79?. Nader-sharp, Billy calculated and concluded: "Oh-oh, I shouldn't have bought that...
Even outside companies have been caught out by Lincoln's Raiders. Best Foods received a letter from Sixth Grader Brian Houser noting that "on the label of a jar of Skippy dry-roasted mixed nuts I noticed that cashews are listed first. But I found more peanuts. Our committee believes that you should correct the label." (The company replied that Brian's jar was "a poor representative of this line" and enclosed a coupon for another.) Next, some candy companies may have to recall their Euclid shipments because their product does not maintain the proper heft for Saturday...
John Kindig, 13, a white seventh-grader at Jefferson Junior High, where the white enrollment has grown from 10% to 55% under the busing program, agrees. "All these adults keep telling us we're supposed to be against busing," he says. "They tell each other 'Burn the buses, tear down the schools, beat up the niggers.' Who do they think they are? We're the ones who are going to school. We're the ones that have to live together. We can do it fine if they'll let us alone...