Word: six-year-old
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...Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter Joanie. The drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
...from conversations overheard at cocktail parties. Take the one that emerged from the sixth birthday party for Happy and Nelson Rockefeller's second child, Mark. "Were his mother and father there?" one mother asked her son afterward. "Yes." "You know his father is the Governor?" Replied the six-year-old: "No, he's not. She's the Governor and he's the Assistant Governor...
...criticism of the speech came from various sides, including the New York Civil Liberties Union and proponents of New York's six-year-old, billion-dollar methadone program (TIME, June 14, 1971), who feel that Rockefeller has not given their scheme a sufficient chance. There were some sober appraisals of the Governor's proposals. Did he really mean to include hashish in the hard-drug category? Where was he going to get all the jails? Said Gordon Chase, New York City health services administrator: "He makes no distinction between kids and big-time pushers. What about...
Finally, the two organizations rely on different traditions of organization which have shaped the character of their administrations. PBH has been constituted as a Harvard organization and has the resources and history of a House 72 years old. E4A is a six-year-old Radcliffe organization striving to establish an independent identity. Both serve the University and Cambridge, but their approaches are complementary, not overlapping...
...Friedman, and the valiant knight who "slew" him is a male nurse from Toledo named Andrew Holly. The clash of their armies near Waterford, Pa., last weekend was brutal but bloodless. It was merely another lovingly re-created medieval spectacle staged by the Society for Creative Anachronism, a six-year-old organization whose 3,000 members are in love with the Middle Ages. They like nothing better than dressing in replicas of medieval clothing, adopting such names as Sir Thorvald the Grim and playing Knight...