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...Illusions. At George Washington last week, the young Negro boy whose father hates books was working successfully in his studies, and the Puerto Rican lad who refused to talk is talking; he told Counselor Schulman that he wanted to be a newspaper reporter, agreed that he could never succeed unless he could ask questions in English. No one has any illusions about how many college-quality scholars are likely to come from the experiment's first group. The girl with the eight brothers and sisters may never be a pediatrician, as she hopes, but because of the experiment...
...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
...Colaborer lands are plowed and planted, George Sutton wants to start other enterprises and funnel their proceeds to other missions deeper into the backlands. "I'm liable to do some Bible-pounding myself,'' he says, "and boy, they sure could use encouragement. I saw a lad here trying to read a Portuguese Bible-upside down. It's a shame, when you think of folks at home who know how to read but never even open the Bible...
...passing Irishman. Big Nelt remembers the Irishman as "not to say old, not to say young. Where he came from it's untelling and where he went to it's the same. He was a clever man and a sight of company to me, a lad...