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...year-old mother, Mary Sirhan, helped explain her son's rage, telling of a baby born in Jerusalem amid the turmoil of war-torn Palestine. When Arab fought Jew in 1948, the street before their home became a barbed-wire no-man's-land. As a toddler, Sirhan had witnessed a terrorist bombing, and one of his brothers was killed by a car speeding to outrun hostile gunfire. From modest comfort, the family was reduced to the mindless misery of refugees. It was, Sirhan insisted, a tragedy that had transformed him into a rootless being, even after...
Talking Before Walking. Haldane fittingly began life as a prodigy. The son of an Oxford physiologist, he could read and talk almost before he could walk. It is said that once, when the talented toddler fell and cut his forehead, he inspected the blood with detachment and asked: "Is it oxyhemoglobin or carboxyhemoglobin?" At Eton, Haldane was regularly beaten by senior boys. But by the time he left school, he could read Latin and Greek, French and German, and, as he observed with matter-of-fact pride, "I knew enough chemistry to take part in research, enough biology...
...clothing store for the beautiful people. Toddler and hand-knits to size 16. Bellbottoms, tiny booties and big boots, Swedish rainwear and Victorian dresses, and lots of other nice things. Our play area is as much fun as our clothing. It's as child-tested...
...Yazoo (accent on the second syllable) City. He is adept at conveying the violence that simmers beneath the surface courtliness of the Deep South and often erupts in cruelty to Negroes -a cruelty, he admits, that he shared. At twelve, he pounced on a three-year-old Negro toddler for no good reason and beat him up. "My heart was beating furiously," he recalls, "in terror and a curious pleasure." Until he knew better, he thought only Negro women enjoyed sexual intercourse. "They were a source of constant excitement for me and filled my daydreams with delights and wonders...
When H. Rap Brown was in diapers and Stokely Carmichael a three-year-old toddler, a group of fledgling Negro flyers shattered tradition in an unsuccessful attempt to integrate the all-white officers' club at Selfridge Field near Detroit. That was in 1944. Last week a veteran of that long-ago sit-in challenged today's hot gospelers of Black Power...