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Elderhostelers are generally seeking adventure, but many arrive with specific goals. Nearly 60% have college degrees, and 30% have been schoolteachers. Edwin Slocum, 91, a former accountant from Van Nuys, Calif., took a computer course at Whittier. His reason: "When my grandchildren begin talking about computers they lose me fast." Estella Bagnell, 85, a former bookkeeper now living in Tampa, took a course in writing family history at Rollins College in Florida because she wants to put her research on the genealogy of the Bagnell family into narrative form for her eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: They Call the Teacher Sonny | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Every household in the fine suburb had several black servants-trusted cooks who were allowed to invite their grandchildren to spend their holidays in the backyard...a shifting population of pretty young housemaids whose long red nails and pertness not only asserted the indignity of being undiscovered or out-of-work fashion models but kept hoisted a cocky guerrilla pride against servitude to whites: there are many forms of resistance not recognized in orthodox revolutionary strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of Privacy and Politics | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...immediately grounding its green-blue-and-white jets. The carrier (1983 revenues: $218 million) had filed for bankruptcy. The abrupt halt stunned employees and left many passengers with shattered plans, scattered luggage and tickets that other airlines refused to honor. Said Faye Holub, who had intended to visit her grandchildren in Chicago: "They gave me a customer-service number to call for a claim, but I think I'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on the Fourth of July | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Cuban National Liberation Army. He kissed miniature Cuban and American flags on his arrival in Miami and looked a bit bewildered as a throng of 250 people cheered him. Said he: "After 20 years, I didn't recognize some of my family. I was surprised to see the grandchildren are bigger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mixed Bag from Fidel's Jails | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...world's most visible leaders, Begin now lives like a hermit in a 3 1/2 room apartment on Zemach Street, two blocks from the home of his son Benyamin. He sees his three children (the third, Leah, works as a ground hostess for El Al), nine grandchildren and a few old friends, but no one else. He spends his days reading and talking on the telephone, which he often answers himself. An Israeli diplomat who recently called his home found him well informed and alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hermit of Jerusalem | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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