Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Craig recovered from the convulsions brought on by a fever, but it was several days before Mrs. Chasnov found out who the good Samaritan was. An aide casually telephoned from New York's City Hall to say that Mayor John Lindsay was interested in knowing how the lad was getting along...
That kind of literary style is also enough to make a grown man cry, but in this case, the author can be forgiven. After all, Charles de Gaulle, 76, was only 15 years old. Clearly born to the purple, the lad wrote the one-act play, entitled An Unfortunate Encounter, to win a boys' magazine prize for the best playlet in verse. His dream of glory involved the dire meeting of a traveler, a brigand and a gendarme in the forest. After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them...
...flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
Many a lost lad, however, has second thoughts about going to the University Health Service psychiatrists. They fear, and with some justification, that a record of their weak moments will work against them when applying to graduate school and for future jobs. Graham Blaine, Chief Psychiatrist at UHS, admits that many students are discouraged from using the Psychiatric facilities because they know that they will be questioned about any treatment they have received. Blaine, however, maintains that the fault is with the grad school and job application questionnaires and not with the confidentiality of the psychiatric records...
...Since independence, however, the Africans have become very mature in appraising their short-run manpower needs. The African authorities are very picky about what kinds of people they will send abroad for training. We have to pass up some awfully good history majors to get down to the lad wanting fisheries. It pains our soul. It sort of runs against the grain of the American tradition in education which lets everybody choose for himself. But the young applicant for a scholarship is really an impersonal part of this big thing called African socialism," Moll says...