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...youngster under Thompson's tutelage, Rainey ran for the Atoms Track Club in Brooklyn, N.Y., for four years. She gave up the sport when she turned...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Former Coach Claims Rainey is Overworked | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...active youngster, White had an interest in tennis until she saw a professional hockey game...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Hard Work and Confidence Make Magic | 2/24/1988 | See Source »

...extra police patrolling the beat in their districts. The L.A.P.D. has refused to make public how its forces are allotted. Councilwoman Gloria Molina claims that the department assigns police equally, whether the crime is the theft of a BMW in West Los Angeles or the killing of a black youngster in Watts. She has attached an amendment to the city budget to force Police Chief Daryl Gates to reveal his formula for deploying his forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Life in Los Angeles | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Technical mastery of anything seemed unlikely when Stankard was a youngster. "I was a dreamer. My mother wanted me to be a dentist, but I flunked all my grades." His father, who was a chemist, suggested scientific glassblowing; that appealed to the young Stankard, and he enrolled in a technical school. After graduating he spent a decade working in industry, making glass instruments for laboratories. But the job became increasingly repetitive, and "I would entertain myself by making glass animals and flowers. Then I began experimenting with making paperweights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Capturing Nature in Glass | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...periods, a young giant with a dazzling, ear-to-ear smile engulfs McKenna in a hug and announces he has just been declared academically eligible to play basketball. McKenna grins and admonishes him to keep up his grades. "You hear me, now," he says, shaking his finger at the youngster, who towers over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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