Word: truants
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...vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
...Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...year-old Peter Schroder rescued a marooned kitten from a 60-ft. pine tree, got 1) a $1.50 reward from the grateful owner, 2) a medal from the Animal Welfare Society, 3) a sound thrashing from his headmaster, who said: "Peter is a hero, but if he plays truant, he must also take his medicine...
...system employs 51,201 people-among them, 37.609) teachers, 772 custodians. 402 truant officers and hundreds of clerks, mechanics, architects, engineers and elevator operators. Many of its subsidiary works, such as legal condemnation of land for new schools and the purchase of supplies (411,500 rolls of toilet paper, $18,965 wet mops. $6,900,000 worth of books and school equipment every year) are big businesses in themselves...
...child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that P.S. 19 is in session. Mrs. Myers claims her truant daughter is now "far ahead" of most fourth-graders...