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...going to give all competition unmitigated hell," says Seltzer. "This newspaper is going to remain the newspaper in this region, period." Under Seltzer's guidance since 1928, the Press has become a real community force in Cleveland. It mother hens its citizens from birth to dotage with a Toddler's Club, free dances for teenagers, 50th wedding anniversary parties. Democratic Senator Frank Lausche admits that the Press helped make him mayor of Cleveland and Governor of the state, and Seltzer can also claim much of the credit for Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze's successful...
...Toddler Present...
...cowpokes who dueled fortnight ago in San Angelo are old and bitter rivals. The Texas favorite, Jim Bob Altizer, 30, was the Rodeo Cowboys Association champion in 1959, began roping chickens and dogs when he was still a toddler, graduated to goats at seven. "I've had a rope in my hands ever since I can remember," says Altizer, and his rope has won him a 38,000-acre ranch stocked with 600 Hereford cows, 6,000 sheep, 4,500 angora goats...
...Tobacco. But the study of viruses in the 1930s was still a toddler among the sciences; no U.S. university even had a chair in virology. Medical texts of the period were studded with such notations as: "The cause of this disease is believed to be a filterable virus, but has not been isolated," Virology needed new foundations to build...
Faster Thinking. Still, the Center recognizes and studies the limitations that immaturity puts on learning. According to Switzerland's Jean Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A five-year-old cannot grasp the principle of the conservation of quantity; he thinks that a piece of clay becomes "bigger" when it is flattened. The idea of transitivity eludes seven-year-olds, who cannot understand the statement: "A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, means...