Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York media. As the television cameras panned Atlantans waving "12" placards the night that the record was broken last week, there was much talk of Atlanta's sudden emergence as a baseball town, as if it had never been one before. When Joe Torre was just a plump kid of 13, his brother Frank was a slick-fielding first baseman for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association (Double A). The Crackers took the pennant that year-and 15 other years too. Only the New York Yankees won more pennants, and no home team was better loved...
...this is the dawning of the computer whiz kid age, nearly a quarter of the freshman class is unaware of it. These delinquent 359 have not yet fulfilled one or both parts of the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, which, the Handbook for students says, must be satisfied by the end of their freshman year. Those students who did not pass the last QRR data test last month and those who do not pass the last computer test, to be given today, will be given the option of taking the tests during freshman week next year. Those who do not pass will...
...White and company, been raised to a high art For instance, what to do if city funding is available for either an old-age home or a local little league City Hall came up with a nifty answer Fund the little league--after all, there's two parents per kid, and they vote more often than the elderly. What about the wealthy private neighborhood development that applied for city money for street improvements even though the area's income was too high to qualify? The city gave them the money anyway, and White won 70 percent of the vote there...
...Brooklyn. Max is a small-time numbers runner and waiter supporting a mistress he can't afford, in 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...
...underestimated the risk of war. Its seizure of the Falkland Islands nonetheless remained popular at home. Activist Perez Esquivel, who won the Nobel Prize for his human rights crusade against the government, offered his support to the junta last week, as did an organized group of mothers of Argentines kid naped in a wave of police repression...