Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action a "whitewash." Declared James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality: "CORE is astonished that the grand jury, with the compliance of the District Attorney's office, has seen fit to exonerate a 200-lb. police lieutenant in the slaying of a 122-lb. Negro youngster." Said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins: "An experienced police officer should be able to arrest a 15-year-old boy without killing him. They can explain and explain until they're blue in the face, but they'll never explain why it's necessary for a police...
...vaudeville comic who had never before done a serious dramatic role and whose stunningly right performance is worth a visit in itself) is a coffee importer. Gilroy's father, now dead, was a coffee importer and one of the best tasters in the busi ness. As a youngster, Gilroy used to go down to Front Street and watch his father tasting coffee, noting how all the phonies present would form their own opinions from his father's grunts and grimaces...
Quality, Not Quantity. The youngster's triumph, the sixth time in eleven tries that a Russian has earned top honors in the prestigious international competition, was a particularly bitter pill for the older U.S. contingent to digest. With 20 entrants, by far the largest delegation among the 28 countries represented, the Americans had clearly come to conquer. But in the two withering weeks of elimination rounds, quantity gave way to quality, leaving but four American hopefuls to compete in the contest finals along with three of the five rigorously trained Russian entries...
...identity crisis was there at first," she says, "but I got along fine." She reads 1,800 words a minute, will go to Radcliffe on a scholarship. > Dale Gieringer of Cincinnati is towering physically (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) and intellectually (he tops his class of 289). "A youngster with a brain like this is awesome," says one teacher at Walnut Hills High. In free time, Dale programs computers at the University of Cincinnati's Kettering Laboratory ("It's just a job, really"). Dale took up astronomy at six, and his prime interest is "where physics, math...
Excitement & Responsibility. Yet Cabot Lodge is a man with a strong sense of mission. Said he in a recent moment of reflection about his present job: "Sometimes I wonder how I ever got here. Then I remember that I'm no youngster any more, that I'm a grandfather many times over, and I've been a very fortunate man. I've had a life full of great excitement and great responsibility, and it's the combination of those two that makes life worth living, gives it its flavor. You take those things into account...