Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Manuel Aguilar Monge is a smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...
During the course of a 20-minute routine checkup, Cobb stated, the examiners will find something wrong with 30 percent of the children. Diagnosing the case in the easy part, according to Cebb, but financial circumstances and family health conditions often make it difficult to get the youngster cured...
...What kind of a society have we created) in which a high-school youngster has to be physically tortured and mentally degraded by his fellows in order to be socially acceptable...
...explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults that pass between Americans...
Miss Lydon finds that the children do not offer any exceptional problems. One obstreperous youngster, however, arrived with his father and then decided that he'd rather go with "the old man" to Law School. Father convinced son that it was more fun at the nursery. Other University children have insisted on following their fathers' example of bringing books to school. Reading however, is not a part of the nursery's curriculum...