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...original Soviet kid hero of this species was Pavlik Morozov, 12, who has earned immortality in the Soviet Encyclopedia for betraying his father in 1930 during the forced collectivization drive. Two years later, the lad became a Communist martyr when, the story goes, he was assassinated by a band of landowners...
Morse (age: 30) plays J. Pierpont Finch, a lad who is eager to score on the inside, instead of scouring the outside, of the Mies van der Rohe palace that houses the World Wide Wickets Co. Finch enters the mail room armed with apple-cheeked guile and a handbook to success that makes him the greatest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
Testimony to Terror. Balaguer himself can testify to the terror-and its reward after 31 years of service to Trujillo. A bright lad from a middle-class family, he graduated from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job as a government prosecutor, he was the perfect functionary-meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs...
Attempting to prove that Castro has improved life in Cuba, Vargas reeled off a long list of production increases. At this point he was interrupted by a student heckler asking about "population increases." An elderly lady sternly told the lad "to mind his manners...
Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing Turkish first novel tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood...