Word: helper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Larry was a part-time helper in Springfield's Democratic headquarters and his father was a state committeeman from western Massachusetts, the O'Briens defied their Irish Catholic neighbors and supported Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, instead of Al Smith, who was the local favorite. O'Brien Sr. was denied a seat in the Massachusetts delegation for his heresy, but history proved that Father knew best...
College Family. Son of a boilermaker's helper who never got past the fourth grade, Boston, now 22, is the youngest of ten children-all of whom went to college. He played baseball at five, quarterbacked his high school football team in Laurel and ran hurdles well enough to earn an athletic scholarship to Tennessee State (which has also turned out such female sprinters as Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams). A straight B student in biochemistry despite his frequent absences, Boston hopes to enter medical school after graduation next January...
While plumping before a House committee for a $10 million bill to battle juvenile delinquency, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff delivered an obiter dictum on child labor legislation. A New Britain, Conn. newsboy at eight and a milkman's helper at twelve, the Polish immigrant's son suspected that present statutes would have slowed his own running start, faulted "laws that do too much coddling of children." Said he: "I think it's better for a boy to take a job as delivery boy for a drugstore than to be hanging around a drugstore corner...
...Western" nations of Southeast Asia who are willing to fight in the face of Communist aggression look toward the U.S. as their helper when, at the threat of war, men responsible for the formulation of U.S. policies back out of a tricky situation by declaring "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," as Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright apparently stated. The political conditions in Asia might not be all "pro" America, but I wonder where the Senator was when the U.S. fought a war in the Solomon Islands, the Gilberts...
...owlish youngster, Josh Wallman has always been fond of birds. A lifelong owner of canaries and parakeets, he started going to the Natural Science Center of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History at about eleven, soon became an unpaid, unofficial "helper" there. During his sophomore year at the Bronx High School of Science, he studied the waterproofing of birds' feathers, earned a regional award from the Future Scientists of America Foundation. Winning the eye of Dr. Daniel S. Lehrman of the Rutgers University Institute of Animal Behavior, Josh was taken on during summer vacations as a laboratory...