Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist marching songs. The klaxonfest might have gone on for hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross at the fuming Grenzpolizei (border police). The West Berlin crowd, held back by police, roared its delight and showered rocks on the Communist guards, who retreated before replying with a powerful blast from...
Using only two characters, "Zoo Story" is a chilling thriller taking place around a Central Park bench. "The American Dream" includes a sexy young lad and a sage old grandma, and makes some perceptive points about contemporary idealism through comedic means...
Blisters & Women. The result may not be "instant men," as one lad puts it. But most boys come away with heightened self-confidence and responsibility. One boy who got such bad blisters that he could not wear shoes put on heavy socks and trotted the six-mile race just to keep his patrol in the competition. Eight of the boys brought off an unscheduled mountain rescue, climbing 2½ hours to save a Baltimore tourist who had suffered a heart attack on a 13,000-ft. ridge near Snowmass Mountain...
...could not help feeling that it was not for the good of the country." Like the Wandering Jew. The royal exiles were warmly welcomed in republican France, but Don Juan still yearned for the sailor's life. His father wrote Britain's George V, asking that the lad be allowed to continue his training in the Royal Navy. Don Juan became a cadet at Dartmouth, went on to win his officer's stripes, put in two years and 89,000 miles of sea travel with the British fleet. His marriage to a distant cousin and childhood friend...
...such citadels of learning as New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill. There, he points out, students "may study four years of the Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most...