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Meanwhile, a bill for the Arena's purchase by the state is still pending in the Massachusetts House. In order to retain the structure as a schoolboy and college sports center, the State, through the Metropolitan District Commission, must now buy it from the businessmen...
Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
Guns & Slingshots. But Rome's students did not see to pay attention. Hardly had the bells stopped tolling when another schoolboy, Filiberto Accica came home to weep over his failing grades in Latin and Greek. All day and all night he shut himself in his room, brooding as Giuseppe had. On Sunday morning, in the bright spring sunshine, he opened his window and jumped to his death. For his Greek professor, Filiberto left a note: "I do not kill you, I kill myself...
When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first "modern" painting-a tortured Matisse street scene-in a Paris gallery. "I was terribly shocked," he remembers. "I was as shocked as if I saw a woman walking on the Boulevard de la Madeleine stripped naked." Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up to become a pupil of the modern school and, eventually, Greece's best living painter. Last week he was in London giving the city its first good...
...Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band...