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...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...
Fastest Gun. A new electronic game to determine the fastest-drawing young cowpoke in the block was put on sale by Kilgore, Inc., Westerville, Ohio. Titled Fastest Gun, the game provides a plastic steer skull and two six-shooters (attached to 8-ft. wires) with plastic holsters. The boy who draws faster and pulls the trigger makes one eye in the skull light up and ring a bell. Price...
...prestige element assumes much significance in college choice motivations, especially when parents steer their children towards schools with which mom and dad are familiar. In Scarsdale the important question is not whether you go, but where you go to college. The records for 1956 and 1957 do reveal, though, some trend toward a wider distribution of colleges attended by the school's graduates. More students have been directed toward two year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing...
Matador? In Franklin County, Ohio, police sought a hit-and-run pilot whose single-engined plane swooped low, knocked a 500-lb. steer over a 5-ft. fence, flew away...
...scientists agreed, a great deal of space exploration will be possible in a few years. Dr. J. Halcombe Laning Jr. of M.I.T. described an unmanned vehicle designed to photograph Mars. It would carry optical devices to observe the sun and the stars. It could watch Mars too, and steer toward it by means of small rockets. Swinging around Mars, it could take pictures through a camera showing objects 500 ft. long; then it would return to earth with its cargo of information. The whole vehicle, said Dr. Laning, need weigh only 300 Ibs. He thinks it could be tossed...