Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cards, it was sweet revenge against the youngster who had handled them like Little Leaguers in his two previous starts. Every Redbird but Orlando Cepeda got on base. There was Shortstop Dal Maxvill, only .227 for the season, booming out a tremendous triple to start everything off in the third inning. And Castoff Yankee Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three...
Somewhere in this vast, great nation, there undoubtedly is a strong, agile, fiercely competitive youngster who could be the best tennis player the world has ever seen. This youngster himself may never know it. Or even care. Little that surrounds the game of tennis today is likely to appeal to him much. For a starter, there is the scoring system, in which 1) "zero" for some reason is "love," 2) one point counts as ten, or 15, or merely "advantage," and 3) a "set" may be six games or go on forever. And then there is the hypocrisy...
...child against rickets, health authorities recommend a daily vitamin D intake of 400 international units (ten micrograms), which is easily obtained from milk. If the youngster's system makes more vitamin D as he plays in the sun, it is usually not enough to be dangerous. If he is given more than 20,000 units, a child becomes severely ill. In northern climes, most white adults make all the vitamin D they need from casual exposure of their face and hands to the sun and need no dietary supplement. They get ill on 100,000 units...
...inch forward toward their goal, the action stops to let each one run over in his mind a private snapshot album of The Ways Things Were. And over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense...
...youngster told about smoking through green peppers: he said he pushed out the core of a green pepper, inserted a cigarette and got high from the smoke's drawing across the pepper seeds. The judges learned the inmates' definition of "spot" and "non-spot" peopie: the spots succeed through education; the non-spots take what they want and resent authority...