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These new-old students are participants in Elderhostel, a program that combines the low cost of youth-hostel living with the challenge of college courses. The only admission requirement is that students be at least 60 years old (or accompanied by a senior citizen). Founded by former Teacher Martin Knowlton, 64, Elderhostel picks up where most adult-education classes leave off. After spending four years walking through Europe and observing adult-education programs, Knowlton came back to the U.S. determined to eliminate "a lot of the negatives associated with retirement." He believes that "when you're older you learn...
Though more soft-spoken than his predecessor, Castro is equally committed to social justice. Born in Montevideo, Castro was one of nine children of a Spanish immigrant mother and Chilean father. The family was Roman Catholic, but as a youth he played with children from a nearby Methodist church. Says Castro, a short, slender man with an infectious smile: "I ultimately found Jesus Christ through my personal contacts. It was not a church-to-church conversion...
...were the only delegates he was to earn; he honored a pledge to withdraw if he did not finish first or second, and brought his campaign to an end. Carter gained his delegate spot in Cambridge--where McGovern won a majority--because of his post as McGovern's state youth coordinator...
...meeting yesterday of the American Youth Caucus Reverend Tyrone Crider of the Jackson campaign proclaimed that party justice comes before party unity...
Strouse believes that Henry Sr.'s refusal to recognize the existence of evil--particularly in women--as the most powerful stress on Alice. Because his own wife was a model of self-denying maternity and had "rescued" him from a troubled youth, Alice's father insisted on idealizing women without recognizing their potential talents. Men struggled with and conquered evil, women were born above it. Strouse conjectures...