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Also at Fort Belvoir, Army engineers are trying out the versatile Universal Engineer Tractor, which resembles a World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson-but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: "Are you happy, are you happy?" Edward, a Negro first-grader, stared at his reader, eyes glazed-but he joined in when everybody sang, "Good night, room; good night, light; good night, window." Nicky, a third-grader whose family had just arrived from Puerto Rico, grunted only a few words in class: "Yes," "No," "Thirsty"-but he flailed his arms along with the others in pantomime...
...hell night" initiation last April for the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity of Oceanside High School on Long Island. Not surprisingly, the bomb had a predictable effect on Ninth-Grader Michael Kalogris, then 14. He collapsed with what doctors at first feared was a ruptured spleen...
...progressive boarding school in New York's Adirondack Mountains, the eighth-grader known as "Yassy" rambles on horseback in the fall, skis in the winter, and in spring helps make maple syrup with the other children. It sounds remote from Hollywood and the Riviera, but it isn't, really, because "Yassy" is Princess Yasmin, 15, daughter of the late Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 46, whom she flew down to visit in Manhattan last week. Rita had just finished making The Money Trap for MGM, and seemed almost relieved to report that Yasmin hasn...
...state legislature, proposing to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. One youth, however, was already participating by calling her father, Grant Sawyer, and telling him as soon as he left the air that his idea turned her off. Added Gail Sawyer, 15, a Carson City tenth-grader, in an interview: "If voting qualifications were lowered, most kids would just go for who their parents are for." Most kids...