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They find solace in the presence of others their age who have not yet tried marijuana-or listen spellbound to a youngster who claims he has. They display as much interest in girls as anyone else their age, and so they ponder the mysteries of love. A few wise guys have smuggled in copies of the latest Playboy, and these are assiduously examined under blankets by flashlight...
Looking like a youngster's stick-and-rubber-band model, the oddly shaped plane headed slowly down the runway at the small airport near Cormeilles-en-Vexin, a village 25 miles northwest of Paris. It rose only about 50 ft. before sinking haplessly back to the ground. Five more times it tried to fly. On its seventh attempt it was able to get enough lift to make one complete turn before landing again. Finally, on the eighth, it began to rise, climbing in gently looping circles, like a hawk riding an updraft of warm air, to an altitude...
...Jean Hague, a former administrator at the American School of Paris, "we don't have the power to influence the schools." Explains George Conway, admissions director at the prestigious Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Va.: "I've never had a counselor push anybody on me. A misrepresented youngster probably would not do well here, and that wouldn't help the counselor's reputation." Some admissions officers say they do give weight to a recommendation from a counselor they know well and whose judgment has proved accurate in the past...
...aspiring entrant, which are, says Keniston, "torture and mysterious rites of passage which test his qualifications for membership in the caste of sorcerers. Once they are accepted as full members, the other members will do everything possible to guarantee their success." Family ties also help, but only if the youngster has the brains to stay the grandes écoles course. Still, hardly ever do any but the most undeniably gifted of the children of laborers or farmers pass through the institutions. The reason most do not qualify, defenders of the schools would argue, is that their home and school environments...
...Ozone Park, Queens. From his classroom window at P.S. 108, young Johnny stared at Aqueduct across the street, dreams of flying hoofs and flowing silks dancing in his head. At 15 he showed up at the track looking for work; as always, there was a job for a youngster willing to do the hard, dirty work of mucking out stalls and hot-walking horses in endless circles to cool them down slowly after a workout or a race. When he turned 16, he quit school and went to the track to stay. Says he: "I started out walking hots, carrying...