Word: hookey
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...Citystep students passed their exam with flying colors as they acted out a day in the life of a 10-year-old playing hookey from school. Weaving in and out of an oversized erector set for the stage, the kids and their teachers danced their interpretations of events from a city life, ranging from a gang fight to trying on a new pair of shoes...
Back--Kelly Gutely, Sr. WMPL (Hancock, Michigan) NCAA Hookey Poll (as selected by the Coaches) thru Dec. 6 1. Minnesota-Duluth (14-3-1) (6) 92 2. Minnesota (13-4-1) (3) 86 3. Bowling Green (11-3-2) (1) 79 4. Michigan State (13-3-0) 61 5. Winconsin (10-6-2) 46 6. Clarkson (7-0-1) 45 7. Providence (13-3-0) 44 8. North Dakota (10-8-0) 28 9. Michigan Tech (9-7-0) 28 10. New Hampshire...
...debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge of the rackets, looking over his shoulder for the cops and the robbers. His brother Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
...only real contest at the convention-the only passionate one involving money, reputation and suspense -was between two closely matched news organizations, NBC and CBS (ABC, listening to its own mercenary heart, looked in at the convention from time to time, but preferred to play hookey with the likes of the All-Star game and thereby gained in the ratings). So much future prestige and so many advertising dollars were at stake that NBC, for example, is spending close to $10 million on the two conventions. That's a lot more than either party is spending on them...