Word: graders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Malachowsky, an eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain...
...predominantly white high schools," says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school, you're really in trouble. You might get paddled or have to work in the cafeteria all of lunch period, so you don't get a chance to play...
Among the celebrities attending the rally were actors Tom Smothers, Warren Beatty, and Carl Reiner, and actress Shirley MacLaine. A tenth-grader at Concord Academy also showed up. Her name--Caroline Kennedy...
Barney's libido is tied up in as many knots as a second-grader's shoelace. When three pretty girls in succession offer him amatory opportunities, he is pathetically and sometimes hilariously unable to follow through. The first, Elaine Navazio, frequents the Manhattan sea food restaurant that Barney manages and practically sends him semaphore signals over the shrimp cocktail. He invites her to a rendezvous -at his mother's apartment, which is empty during the day while his mother works. Barney supplies his own bottle of J & B and buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale...
...John Wayne ("He is one of the few actors who has not appeared on the screen in his birthday suit. As a minor I protest against all these R and X movies"). There was even evidence of Women's Lib on the grammar school level. A fifth-grader drew Gloria Steinem "because she made me feel proud that I am a woman." Another girl, three years younger, was even more certain of women's rightful status. Her choice? God, wearing a maxi dress...