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...three freshmen stay at school over Christmas break to study for their finals. "Getting into Med School--that's serious business," one youngster announces...
Seven years after he vanished while walking home from school in Merced, Calif., Steven Stayner, 14, suddenly reappeared. He told police that he had been held in a remote cabin by Kenneth Parnell for what amounted to half his lifetime.* The youngster was joyously reunited with his family, but as soon as his return was reported, a second trauma began. Within days, more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they...
...influences. In his books Seduction of the Innocent (1954) and A Sign for Cain (1966), he contended that violence in the mass media was in part responsible for juvenile delinquency. He called television "a school for violence," and commenting on movies, he wrote, "If I should meet an unruly youngster in a dark alley. I prefer it to be one who has not seen Bonnie and Clyde." Wertham's campaign in the 1950s against comic books forced that industry to tone down crime and horror...
...turns out, the dead bodies of General Harlan Bache (George C. Scott), the commandant, and Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), the ranking cadet officer, who reveres the bonkers brigadier. After Bache is invalided out of the film (much too early for fans of Scott's mad-militarist mode), the youngster turns the academy into an armed camp to protest its demise. Besieged by police, National Guardsmen and anxious parents, he vows not to surrender until the trustees negotiate with...
...E.S.T.) something new visits the Ingalls home: plague, disease, blindness and enough orphans to stock every Annie road company. For eight years the three Ingalls children have proved that with the right kind of adversity and a father like Michael Landon, you can go in there a youngster and come out a star...