Word: three-year-old
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Machine pistols cracked. Sobered, the dozer straightened up, clattered straight into a 5-ft.-deep antitank ditch and through three barbed-wire fences to come to rest against a tree in the Spandau section of West Berlin. From the bulldozer's cab emerged two husky young East Germans, their pregnant wives, and the towheaded three-year-old...
...four have placed in stakes races. The star of the stable is Buckpasser, a son of Tom Fool, who won more money last year ($568,096) than any two-year-old in history, has won eight out of nine races so far this year-setting a world record (1 min. 32 ⅜sec.) for the mile in the process-and needs only to win this week's Travers Stakes at Saratoga to become the first three-year-old equine millionaire...
...defenders. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, contends that "teaching young children anything that enlarges their ego is good for them," and "any activity that demonstrates a mother's emotional interest in her child is very important for a three-year-old." Many experts also applaud the games, art, musical records and picture books that help prepare a child for school but do not pressure him to read...
...American people, according to three-year-old polls, were in general apathetic about our relations with China. Recently, however, Pye continued, "it has become fashionable to deal with and be flexible over relations with China. I welcome the change in mood, but am pessimistic about the ability of the U.S. to influence Chinese policy." If this turns out to be the case, Pye said, then there is the distinct possibility of a backlash by disillusioned Americans which will make future relations with the Chinese more difficult...
...three-year-old surfing post in Coronado, Calif., brings in oceanographers and water pollution experts to talk to its 100 members, is credited by local authorities with sharply reducing vandalism and litter on the beaches. Chicago's Law Enforcement Post 9004 consists of ten members of a gang called the Lazy Gents. All have police records, and their advisers are two police detectives. "They're a tough bunch," says Detective Arthur Leidecker, 25. "They won't follow any program." Even so, Leidecker and his partner have made favorable impressions. Since the post was formed last fall...