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Many juvenile crimes, especially in the advanced teens, are motivated by downright meanness. Around the ages of sixteen and seventeen some of the boys become so tough and anti-social that their acts become increasingly brutal. A good example occurred a few years ago when one local tough stood on a street corner flipping a coin in the air for fifteen minutes. He then let it drop to the sidewalk. Another boy standing nearby bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local...
...Original dramatic ideas come so rarely to TV that they deserve better treatment than The Ninth Day got from Playwrights Dorothy and Howard Baker last week on Playhouse 90. For more than half its length, the play was up to the idea. Seventeen years after a nuclear holocaust, the last hope of propagating the race lies in the-only two teen-agers of eight survivors on a California hilltop. After bickering through childhood like brother and sister, the boy (John Kerr) and the girl (surprisingly well played by Piper Laurie) are pressed, balking and shying, into marriage. The wedding preparations...
...Gaitskell, the road upward has been remarkably short. Seventeen years ago he left his academic post as head of the Department of Political Economy at University College, London, to enter civil service. Yet since he first won his Leeds constituency in the 1945 Labour sweep, Gaitskell has risen to a succession of high party posts, despite firm opposition from the Socialist left wing. A middle-class intellectual at the head of a party of workingmen, Gaitskell represents a new generation of Socialist leadership that is currently modifying some of the essential features of "the Cause...
...been considered that some souls who are convinced to attend church by the first seventeen bongs may change their minds after the excessive repetition of the argument which the remaining 109 bongs constitute? Freshman Committee for Resolution of the Mem Church Bell Enigma...
...basement of Harvard Hall. From that era up to the present day the School's history has been one of constant moving from one building to the next. In 1883, the School moved to 688 Boylston Street which "was expected to be the home for medicine for generations." Seventeen years later, it was ready to move to its present location just off Huntington Avenue...