Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when the teacher happens to switch him on to offer individual ad vice. If the instructor wants to give the class practice in playing the same piece together, he simply throws a switch and away they...
...industry, it has long been an article of faith that a youngster who plays with make-believe guns is no more likely to grow up a criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...
...withdrawn and bookish. His father took the family all over the world-Hawaii, Brazil, France, Japan-as he climbed the ladder of a large chemical company. Three years ago, when Burt was 15, the family moved to Palos Verdes, an affluent suburb south of Los Angeles. Almost overnight the youngster was transformed. He taught himself to surf, put on 50 Ibs. of muscle and a deep tan, was elected to the student council and began dating the prettiest girls. Though his grades slipped to the low B range, his parents were delighted...
...youngster in The Bronx, Composer Stanley Silverman was fascinated by the blur of sounds he got from spinning a radio dial. Pop tunes, speeches, symphonies, soap operas-all jostled each other in a way that struck Silverman as symbolic. "I decided," he says, "that life itself is like switching the dial of a radio...
Only his heirs could care whether a millionaire throws away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing...