Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years I have been an ardent reader and fan of yours, but still feel compelled to write: shame on TIME for describing Joshua Wallman as an "owlish" youngster...
Steel called the president of General Motors and said, "Give or else." Education was the theme of Meyer's Administration. Not only was a college education available to every youngster; it was compulsory. The summer White House was installed at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Passing out cigars, checking the stakes of the pinochle game in the East Room, keeping the guests' glasses filled with seltzer water -Jacob Meyer was a beloved President...
...owlish youngster, Josh Wallman has always been fond of birds. A lifelong owner of canaries and parakeets, he started going to the Natural Science Center of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History at about eleven, soon became an unpaid, unofficial "helper" there. During his sophomore year at the Bronx High School of Science, he studied the waterproofing of birds' feathers, earned a regional award from the Future Scientists of America Foundation. Winning the eye of Dr. Daniel S. Lehrman of the Rutgers University Institute of Animal Behavior, Josh was taken on during summer vacations as a laboratory...
...sort of federal inspection or control or reform schools, not leave the respective states to coddle or cudgel the delinquent as they see fit. Reform schools should be the first to become rehabilitation centers, staffed with behavorial scientists and equipped to offer the best in education. There is no youngster that cannot with competent help and guidance be made to desist from crime. And the cost of rehabilitating the most recalcitrant youngster will not be one tenth of the eventual cost to society if he is allowed to lead a life of crime. Has anyone ever attempted to compute what...
...Orleans elementary schools, the court order was still being treated with legalized contempt. At the William Frantz school, where as many as 23 white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael, 8, walked to school with...