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...Lipchitz. The youngest of the cubists at 24, he is half a century later one of the elders of modern art. With Picasso 84 and Chagall 78, Lipchitz is the third in a line of living patriarchs who led the 20th century artistic transformation. As an eight-year-old youngster in Lithuania, Lipchitz made clay toys to give girls, says he, "so they would be nice to me. You see, I started sculpting for love." The dolls of his youth have ripened into shattered torsos, tortured totems, writhing beasts...
...offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received $2,400,000 from OEO, were subpoenaed by the district attorney, whose suspicion was aroused when a youngster complained that he had not been paid in five weeks. A suspended aide then accused the officials of misusing city and federal funds, paying excessive executive salaries and falsifying their accounts...
...showed, intelligence test scores do vary. But more to the point is the fact that IQ tests measure not intelligence but what the experts call the "learned responses" of an individual to a series of questions or problems. Thus, IQ serves chiefly to give teachers some idea of a youngster's ability to do academic work. Even here, many teachers make the mistake of using IQ to predict a child's future achievements...
...consider leaving the Star, they didn't want you anyway." Now the Star has raised salaries and approved a pension plan that calls for mandatory retirement at 65, thus giving younger men a chance to get ahead. "We've finally got to the point," says one encouraged youngster, "where you don't have to wait until some guy dies for places to be opening up." After all, if Roy Roberts can retire peacefully, anyone...
...next day the crew would hand him over to "the people in Ybor City," a section of town jammed with Castro-hating exiles. Ramírez pulled a .38 and shot his tormentor, then, wild with fury, dashed aft to kill Franco and the others, sparing only the Honduran youngster and the cook "because I had nothing against them...