Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's biggest worry now is that the Cosmos, having established a precedent by signing two undergraduate soccer players several weeks ago, will reach down into the honey pot again and spirit St. Louis away from the Crimson and into the N.A.S.L...
Such stories notwithstanding, Reach-Out has no conclusive statistics to show whether it prevents juvenile crime. The program at present lacks the resources to keep tabs on all those who receive counseling and most who do participate hardly end their waywardness immediately. Still, the relationship with an inmate can have an enormous influence on a juvenile. As one youth put it to his counselor in a recent letter...
...Reach-Out, keenly aware of the image problem attached to any activity of its kind, takes pains to strees the trustworthiness of the counselors, all 30 of whom have been through a screening process and 16-week training period. Officers of the program, who have a lot at stake in making sure no counselors abuse their position (parole boards look favorably on participation in the program), occasionally listen in on their fellow inmates' conversations with kids. Reach-Out Chairman Leonard Lacy claims that of the 40 or 50 counselors let out of prison in the past few years, only...
...black from a Roxbury housing project, is willing to do it. He leans back in the swivel chair, crossing his high-top sneakers on the prison guard's desk. The guard--Kevin Glynn--doesn't care. A rare exception among the guards, he's as much a part of Reach-Out as the inmates and kids...
Spears will soon be transferred to a lower security prison. It won't have a Reach-Out program. He describes what the program means to him personally, waxing almost rhapsodically about his "metamorphosis from the beast to the butterfly," his new attitude...