Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal easier than picking them at age ten. One student out of the first group--20 member of the Class of '61--had grown up in California's Imperial Valley, where his father made $4500 a year icing railroad cars. His mother, a Mexican, spoke little English, and neither parent wanted their son to go to college. The student's Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score was 415, and his math score was 452. The college guide books caution that scores this low often indicate a serious inability to cope with college work. Yet the boy was first in his class...
...congregation is inclined to agree, and next spring, if the hurt feelings of Holy Cross's parent body, the American Lutheran Church, can be soothed, the parishioners will join with the congregation of a nearby Episcopal church, St. Margaret's, to form a new Holy Cross Episcopal Church...
...Every parent should know that his child judges him; but he should also know that the judgment is that of a child. The U.S. has alternated between taking the judgment of its children not seriously enough-and too seriously. What is regarded as today's youthful nihilism is undoubtedly much less alarming than it seems. Whatever political causes the apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group...
...Ideology. Greater Philadelphia regularly jabs at its home town. Its exposure of bankruptcy frauds last year resulted in the conviction of five local businessmen. Its criticism of the overcrowded and obsolescent city airport touched off a rebuilding program. Seattle cost its parent company, King Broadcasting, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ads when it ran an article ridiculing local wines. When a project to renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which...
Koret set up Koratron as a licensing subsidiary of his Koret of California (annual sales: $25 million), but the child threatens to outgrow the parent. Koratron is run by Herman A. Greenberg, 57, a Harvard Law graduate and onetime New York Daily Mirror reporter who was hired because of the policing experience he gained as the wartime Office of Price Administration's enforcement director. The com pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising...