Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped support Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger in the 1930s and in 1952 established the Population Council, which supports contraception research and family-planning programs around the globe. John D. III's concern over campus turmoil in the late '60s inspired his Task Force on Youth, set up to encourage and support projects in which the young can collaborate with the Establishment...
...Mobiles are a summer project of a unique group of Orthodox Jews who have made it their mission to awaken fellow Jews to Jewish identity and spiritual obligation. They are the Lubavitcher Hasidim, members of an Eastern European sect that now has its international headquarters in Brooklyn.* The Lubavitch Youth Organization mans the mobiles with vacationing Yeshiva (religious school) students and young rabbis. Half a dozen vans are on the road each week in New York City and its suburbs and in the "Borscht Belt" Catskills resort area upstate. The sect also operates vans in other U.S. cities (among them...
...Floridian had been found guilty of taking potshots at the home of an interracial couple, and faced 20 years behind bars for shooting into an occupied dwelling and carrying a concealed weapon. But Judge Alfonso Sepe had other ideas. No one had been hurt in the shooting, and the youth had no criminal record. So, after consulting the victims, Sepe decided on probation rather than prison-provided that the young man would attend Saturday morning breakfasts in a predominantly black church and also do volunteer work for a black charity. "You're going to find out," said Sepe, "what...
...down penalties that fit the crime, Sepe tries to set probation terms that may prevent continued offenses. Thus a young marijuana smuggler was ordered to go back to college, get a job, report his grades to the court and write a paper on whether marijuana has harmful effects. A youth convicted of disorderly conduct and violently resisting arrest was required to teach a jail inmate how to read. When a cleanup of the Miami River was organized by officials, more than a dozen Sepe "volunteers" were there to help; two were cited for their extraordinary efforts by Florida...
...offer a free education. Also, the academy graduate, unlike his civilian counterpart, is guaranteed a job; the services can take all the ensigns and second lieutenants the academies can provide. Then, too, the antimilitary sentiment of the Viet Nam War years is fast fading among the nation's youth. Besides, the academies offer a first-rate and increasingly broad education...