Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEEPLY DRAWN stories of previous collections were split between nostalgia for the moral individualism and bucolic sensibility that his upbringing nurtured, and concern for the conservatism and stagnation that existed simultaneously at levels of town life beyond the youngster's grasp. The farm where the young Updike and his fictional stand-ins were brought up is a cruel but an ordered place, dominated by the dreams of his mother and tempered by the stoic reserve of his father; the towns which lie outside are usually dreary places, full of people governed by lethargy, and occasionally swayed by social currents. Updike...
Schmitt's preparation began long before Apollo was conceived. The son of a mining geologist, he grew up in Silver City, N. Mex., and decided early in life to become a geologist himself. As a youngster he visited mining camps, explored Indian reservations and made rock-hunting forays into the lunar-like deserts of the Southwest. At Caltech he studied under Ian Campbell and other noted earth scientists, including some of the men who will be watching his every move over TV from Mission Control's science support room...
...When an orthodontist tries to correct malformations in a child's teeth and jaw, he must attempt to figure out how these parts will change as the youngster matures. Dr. Geoffrey Walker of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has come up with a method that promises to reduce the guesswork involved in this process. He has taken 15,000 skull-profile X rays made over a period of years and converted these pictures to coordinate maps of the skull and jaw. The result is a computer model capable of predicting how a jaw will grow. With just...
Last July, when Joseph Fielding Smith died at the age of 95, command of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints passed to a relative youngster. The new president, Harold Bingham Lee, was only 73-the youngest man to assume the mantle of "prophet, seer and revelator" for the Mormons since 1918. (Smith took office at 93.) Since his accession, both outsiders and members have wondered just how much innovation Harold Lee would bring to the rich, rapidly growing but still monolithic Mormon Church...
...before I was baptized." By then, Gray was too convinced of Mormonism's truthfulness to back out, even though the restriction still galls him. Another young Mormon black, Eugene Orr, is distressed that unlike other Mormon fathers, he will be unable to baptize his own son when the youngster is eight and ready for the ritual. "I am not about to hand my child over to a white man to bless him," insists Orr, but he sticks by Mormonism all the same. "You wonder why we continue in the church?" he asks. "It's because I know that...