Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of a good old horse against a good young horse. The youngster is Bret Hanover, the hulking (1,100 lbs.) four-year-old pacer whose 47 victories in 50 races made him the winningest race horse in the U.S. The oldster is Cardigan Bay, 10, a New Zealand-bred pacer whose own racing record showed 21 victories in 39 U.S. starts and total winnings of $586,981-$29,149 more than Bret Hanover. The race, a $65,000 stakes at New York's Yonkers Raceway last week, was appropriately called the Pace of the Century...
...Parker, 16. Last fall Parker was accused of burglarizing a hotel room, stealing a car, and robbing an old man of 60? at pistol point. Denied counsel, Parker was sent to a training school until the age of 21. On appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that a youngster is entitled to a lawyer whenever the charges against him equal adult felonies. Having lost Round 1, the A.C.L.U. is taking Parker's case to the Florida Supreme Court...
...hand, coffee cup in the other, Athos strolls into the center of his classroom's U-shaped rows of seats, and begins to toss out pointed questions in a disarmingly gentle voice. He poses, for example, the problem of how three older men feel when a boss promotes a youngster over them. To a student who argues that feelings don't matter, only success does, Athos says crisply: "I would like to suggest that you talk an ideology that you do not practice?even in this classroom." To another: "You think that the boss knows what he's doing because...
...Juilliard," he replies gently: "I know you're right artistically, but, unfortunately, this is the way it will sell." He may suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...
...Limit the number of children's candy-flavored aspirin in a single package, in the hope that even if a youngster gobbled a whole bottleful the effects would not be fatal...