Word: three-year-old
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...week every Frenchman with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe...
...truth, the children of Northern Ireland are what one British colonel calls "the most depressing thing about this depressing place." "There is nothing to be done with them," says Mrs. David Brennan, "except get them out of here. When my three-year-old son came in from stoning soldiers, I knew we had to go." The Catholic Brennans are leaving and so are thousands of others. This emigration, unlike earlier ones, is made up of skilled workers and professional people, Protestant as well as Catholic, who are leaving because they see no future in Northern Ireland. "The people...
Each one consists of a sand-filled, depressed area with a signpost in the center to serve both as marker and target. On opening day, dog owners and dogs lined up to use the inaugural facility in Serzedelo Corréa Plaza, but the first sampler was a three-year-old boy who wriggled away from his mother and hit the post perfectly. Said his embarrassed mother: "He has always been somewhat mischievous." As for the dogs, most of them went about their business as usual...
Expensive Toy. While vacationing in Santa Fe with his family in 1943, Land had his three-year-old daughter Jennifer pose for some pictures on a walk. The child asked how long it would be until she could see them. Land, who had been interested in photography since childhood, immediately began wondering how photos might be developed and printed right inside the camera. He now claims jokingly that by the time he and Jennifer returned from their walk, he had solved all the problems "except for the ones that it has taken from 1943 to 1972 to solve." Actually...
...modern rummage sales and their smaller neighborhood counterparts offer the old-fashioned fun of a country fair. Their proliferation has also revived the ancient art of haggling, long since fallen into disuse in the U.S. Picture the satisfaction of one Connecticut housewife, for example, who bid for a three-year-old G.E. refrigerator and got it for $50. At the same sale she picked up a Kenmore washer with a new motor for $40 and a 3-h.p. lawn mower for $30. Her only regret : "I missed a Chevy pickup truck that went...