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...normal life. Some of its pupils are stammerers or have cleft palates. Others are epileptics, spastics, mongoloids or deaf-mutes. In spite of dealing with a wide range of handicaps, the school has chalked up quite a record: in the last five years it has enabled 200 once seemingly hopeless children to enroll in the regular elementary school system...
...year-old, out of prison only 18 months since he was 15, not only teaches illiterates but laces his instruction with comments on the folly of crime. ¶A young man once on the FBI's most-wanted list, and described as vicious, depraved and hopeless, has at last settled down and is one of the most satisfactory students in the eighth grade...
...strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
...songs threaded on a first-person narrative. Songstress Ellis pretends to recall her childhood, lisps her way through If I Had a Ribbon Bow, works her way through giddy happiness (I Ain't Got No Shame), through fierce, frightening love (I Love You Porgy), and on to final, hopeless reflections about her life in the title song. Songstress Ellis has a flexible voice, a flair for drama, sings well, puts the fantasy across handily...
...Project "East River" and other studies predict that concrete and steel shelters alone will have little value in the event of atomic attack, the FCDA's approach is of dubious survival value. In dense cities such as New York the use of all possible shelter space could not prevent hopeless overcrowding and mass deaths. Evacuation, on the other hand, would be practically impossible, even with an adequate early warning system...