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...success because of the one vital ingredient-the all-American hero. Joe Cavanagh started the mystique by announcing that he would bypass pro hockey next year for the long-range advantages of a B.C. Law School degree. Then came the you-wouldn't-believe-it story of a ninth-grader waiting for a basketball game, picking up a tennis racquet for the first time, catching the coach's eye, and playing for the state champion varsity the next spring. By the end of the interview, the reporter was asking coach Jack Barnaby if Joe couldn't beat Rod Laver...
...shell"), then to dreams and lies ("I was born nowhere/And I live in a tree."). The next step led to lines beginning "I used to . . ." alternated with "But now I . . ." This especially charmed the kids, perhaps because it reminded them of their own constant physical change. First-Grader Andrea Dockery offered a typical thought...
...children, we learn that this is the established, and the acceptable, relationship. Dexterous first-grader that I was, I learned to be a prolific potholder producer, and every Christmas Eve, I would leave two of the potholders on the mantel for Santa. It was understood that he would take them black to Mrs. Claus, who would be expected to use them to cook. For Santa himself, we left cookies and milk or after-shave lotion. Male chauvinist, to say the least...
...last five minutes, when Ricky Nelson sang a couple of his latest hits. Could I have been as sad a sight as these Bobby Sherman fans? Had I been more than a teenybopper, except that I was in the 1959 mold? Was taking guitar lessons as a fourth grader in order to follow in Rick's footsteps no better than sewing a picture of Bobby Sherman in your panties? I searched my soul...
...extracurricular activities and forced to ride segregated buses. In Huntsville. Ala., 113 blacks walked out of a high school pep rally to protest the playing of Dixie, and a fight with white students ensued. The school board suspended the blacks for "leaving school without permission." One black eighth-grader in Louisiana was suspended for saying "Yes" to a white teacher instead...