Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called eeneishoodi beolta (for "those who drag their clothes," meaning the first Catholic priests who came to the reservation). The Navaho likes none of those places. White men's creations, they separate children from their families and tribal traditions, are largely inadequate, and have succeeded mainly in teaching young Indians to feel like second-class citizens. As one result, Indians have the country's highest illiteracy rate. Half of them do not complete high school; 40% are unemployed...
Once he had taught himself the guitar, Williams quit school and formed the Wayfarers, a folk group that played the church-social and Holiday Inn circuit in Texas. Along the way, he met another struggling young guitarist named Tommy Smothers. After a tour in the Navy, Mason became a backup man for the brothers' by then successful nightclub act. He was also Tommy's roommate; the two of them used to write down ideas and gags, songs or shows and store them in a stationery box. Williams also began to record random thoughts in 500-page accounting ledgers...
...West German tourists are welcome in Israel, and many-especially the young-are eager to visit the people of whom they have heard so much but seen so little. Last year more than 13,000 West Germans traveled to Israel and accounted for 3% of the tourist trade. Late this month, Lufthansa will add two more flights a week to Tel Aviv, doubling its total, as the German flag continues to follow trade...
Like innumerable young men before them, Peter Whitfield and Robert Tanner dreamed of making a pile of money fast without much work or capital investment. Unlike most, these two former Oxford economics students have succeeded. The inspiration that sent them on their way came to Whitfield in bed one night in 1962. He leaped up and began scribbling down his idea; then he called on his friend Tanner. After putting up $200 each, they established headquarters in one room of a small hotel owned by Tanner's family in Golders Green, a polyglot district of Northwest London. They were...
...balled and I took her phone number and that's it. Only one night with the girl. And I come up with the right name. A real memory job.' " Personal reporting is New York's forte, but it has other assets as well-a young, eager staff, a fresh appearance, competent critics of the arts, and the high visibility in the nation's writing capital needed to attract both top freelancers and talented newcomers...