Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little fellows paying kickbacks, merchandise failing to support the promise of its labels, employees defrauding their bosses, physicians involved in accident-insurance swindles, 300 indictments in 20 cities in poverty-housing scandals, developers paying off zoning commissions, policemen on the take, store employees outstealing shoplifters, even a cherubic youngster caught cheating in the soap-box derby. Any day, anywhere: see your local paper for further details...
...surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. Admitted to the hospital for a biopsy and other tests on a Friday morning, Teddy was examined, released for the weekend, and sent back to school the following Monday. But by Tuesday the results of the tests had come back from the lab; the youngster had chondrosarcoma, a fast-growing cancer of the cartilage. The recommended treatment: prompt amputation to prevent the disease from spreading...
Speedy Recovery. Once the decision was made, things moved swiftly. Teddy's mother Joan was summoned home from Europe; the diagnosis and the fact that amputation was necessary were kept from the youngster until she arrived. Reporters who had learned of the boy's condition were asked to delay publication of the news. "We didn't want him to hear on the radio or see in the paper that he had cancer," said a family friend. By the time a London newspaper broke the story and prompted its release in the U.S., the Kennedys and Dr. Hyatt...
Doctors will not say when Teddy will be fitted with an artificial leg. But the youngster is not waiting that long to learn how to get around. With the toughness characteristic of his clan, he reported to the hospital's therapy unit last week, and with the aid of parallel bars and a temporary peg leg, began learning to walk again...
...Lewis started collecting things as a youngster. "My first attempt was with houseflies," he recalls. "I kept them in a cigar box until somebody threw them out without my knowledge." Undaunted, he moved on to sea shells, stamps, coins, butterflies and finally books. By 1923, Lewis had acquired 1,000 books of English literature. "I really didn't care about them," he says. "Yet I knew if I could get interested in one person, I could have a direction for life." Through pure serendipity*-a chance remark of a friend at a dinner party-Lewis came upon the writings...