Word: truants
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...Truant. Kallinger took a kind of satisfaction in the notoriety that his family had received. He pinned the newspaper clippings detailing his family's woes to .the wall of his shoe repair shop, and he frequently pointed them out with pride to customers...
...marchers--including South Boston parents and their truant children--sang 'God Bless America' and carried signs stating their opposition to Boston's busing plan...
...mysterious defiance of it. This is all the older men have to teach. For all their tatoos, the Navy has them in a state of arrested development. They've been to Vietnam but they've children, lost in the world and hiding in the order of Navy life: playing truant and breaking rules in one of the only adult institutions that gives a damn if you fool around...
...SIDEKICK on this job who seemed to have gotten his job by bearing the name of his great-uncle the ex-governor. We went together from house to house in a big white air-conditioned Galaxie--occasionally being mistaken for the truant or probation officer--and telling poor people about how they could buy a nice little brick house from the government for only as much a month as they were paying now for rent. (A split level, which required getting an extra room, was a little more...
Juvenile Court. Noted documentarian Frederick Wiseman ("Hospital," "High School") presents a two-and-a-half hour "documentary mosaic" on America's juvenile court system. Filmed in Memphis, the cinema-verite excursion looks closely at the handling of individual cases including an 11-year-old truant being brought to justice. CH. 2. 8 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. 30 min. May be pre-empted by Watergate hearings...